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Does Breast Milk Make Babies Smarter?

For years parents and health care professionals have speculated that breast milk makes babies smarter. But with so many variables at play, it has been a difficult hypothesis to prove. Even if it is assumed that breastfed babies are smarter,…   Read more

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Do Mothers Of Formula-Fed Babies Really Get More Sleep?

It was nearly 5 a.m. Impossible! I grabbed my cell phone to make sure the time on my alarm clock was right. Surely my 10-week-old daughter didn’t sleep for seven hours? I was initially elated. Then panic struck.  Something must…   Read more

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Breastfeeding Notably Absent In Review Of SIDS

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the subject of a review article by Hannah Kinney, MD and Bradley Thach, MD published in the August 20, 2009 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Surprisingly, no mention is made of…   Read more

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What’s The Problem With Pacifiers?

Knowing the many benefits of breastfeeding, health care providers are quick to discourage any obstacles to achieving breastfeeding success. In the late 1980s, pacifiers received a negative nod when the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)…   Read more

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Breastfeeding Reduces Risk For SIDS

“A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor’s brain in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants.” This statement by Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the late…   Read more

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Common Childhood Coughs