Ages of medical research has confirmed that mother’s milk has extraordinary health benefits for the newborns.
Weather breastfeeding makes babies smarter or not is the theme of recent discussions and the scholars have given evidence that point in two divergent directions thus making it difficult to reach at a conclusive end.
Recent research done by three Scottish scientists’ postulates that breastfed children score higher on measures of cognitive functioning.
While some researchers have asserted that long chain, polyunsaturated fatty acids in mother’s milk are important for the development of the central nervous system and intelligence. Still others have suggested that the intimate contact might affect the brain’s development in ways still not understood.
Meanwhile, the Scottish scientists explained that mums with higher IQs are more likely to breastfeed and breastfed babies on average exhibit more cognitive competence than their bottle-fed counterparts.
