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Baby Wearing: A Natural Way to Promote Breastfeeding

But I will admit to rolling my eyes whenever I read or heard about women “wearing” their babies and how it promoted a sense of security for their children (and a built in privacy factor for public breastfeeding) and even fostered

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Breastfeeding Boosts IQ In Infants With Helpful Genetic Variant

The known association between breast feeding and slightly higher IQ in children has been shown to relate to a particular gene in the babies, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Breastfeeding increases child's IQ

Study reveals link between breastfeeding and child IQ Babies who are breastfed stand a better chance of becoming intelligent children if they also inherit a version of a gene that is involved in the growth of the brain, researchers have

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Breastfeeding Brighter Children?

There was an article that came out yesterday in BBC News citing a study that claims that breast fed children with a certain allele (variant) of a gene involved in fatty acid metabolism scored seven points higher in IQ tests than formula

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Genetic Variation Modulate Benefits of Breastfeeding

Sci., scientists have found out that breastfeeding can indeed boost an infant’s brain development and intelligence, provided the baby carried at least one copy of a ‘C’ allele for a gene called FASD2, which is involved in the genetic

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Study on breastfeeding and IQ

If there ever was a persuasive argument in favour of breastfeeding, it is probably this paper*. Essentially, it has always been known that breastfeeding and intelligence were linked - children that were breastfed achieve higher results

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Study: Breast Feeding Makes Babies Smarter

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Missed Opportunities

I got one other interesting tidbit in my inbox today: a link to the BBC writeup on a study that found a gene that determines whether or not breastfeeding will have a positive impact on a child’s IQ. Or rather, whether or not NOT

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Breastfeeding

“A single gene influences whether breastfeeding improves a child’s intelligence, say London researchers.” “Children with one version of the FADS2 gene scored seven points higher in IQ tests if they were breastfed. ”

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