Jo’s Cafe

Since it is World Breastfeeding Week, I thought I’d get at least one post out here. This seemed like a good candidate:

Breastfeeding Reduces Anxiety Into Childhood

Breast-feeding’s calming effects seem to be long-lasting.

Years after being weaned, breast-fed children cope better with stressful situations, such as their parents’ divorce, than their bottle-fed peers, researchers said on Thursday.

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The researchers do not know why breast-fed babies were less anxious. They suggested breast-feeding could be an indicator of other parental factors or the physical contact between the mother and the child may have helped to reduce anxiety.

Breast-feeding could also influence the development of pathways in the body linked with its response to stress.

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