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Infants who get regular doses of mother's milk tend to be less bratty children. Credit: Getty Images
Breast milk apparently hath charms to soothe the savage, well, breast.
CBS News reports British researchers have found infants who get regular doses of mother's milk direct from the tap tend to be less bratty children later on. They also are less likely to lie, steal and be anxious or hyperactive.
Researchers from the universities of Oxford, Essex, York and University College London used collected information on more than 10,000 infants born in 2000 and 2001. They found that 16 percent of the babies given formula instead of breast milk were little hellions (to some degree) by age 5.
Only 6 percent of breast-fed children were such troublemakers.
What makes breast milk so wonderful? Well, there's the packaging, of course. Sheer brilliance! Nursing creates a strong bond between mother and child. Beyond that, CBS reports, breast milk has fatty acids that aid in brain development.
"We just don't know whether it is because of the constituents in breast milk, or the close interaction with the mum, or whether it is a knock-on effect of reduced illness in breast-fed babies," Oxford University's Maria Quigley tells CBS. "But it does begin to look like we can add fewer behavioral problems as another potential benefit of breast-feeding."
On the other hand, just because you didn't breast-feed your baby doesn't mean he's going to grow up to become John Dillinger.
"We must not send a negative message to mothers that they have failed, or make them feel guilty because they bottle-feed their babies," breast-feeding expert Janet Fyle of the Royal College of Midwives tells CBS.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
5-13-2011 @ 3:39AM
Kay said...Where do you come up with this stuff? Both my sons were exclusively breastfed up to 14 months, and yet my oldest's temperament has always been a certain way. I was exclusively bottle fed and yet, I was always told how I was such a nice kid, even by my older brothers. You can't change a child's temperament by breastfeeding, but you can foster empathy and help him learn to problem solve and cope to become independent. Think about it, almost my entire generation was exclusively bottle fed, were there so many more "brats" running around then than now with the higher rates of breastfeeding? This is a bunch of bunk that only fosters unneeded parental anxiety.
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5-13-2011 @ 4:14PM
Sara said...I agree with Kay. What BS. There are many very good reasons to breast feed, this isn't one of them. To think there was actually money spent on a study for this that could have gone to something perhaps important.
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