What New Moms Need to Know About the Long-Term Benefits of Breastfeeding
There are many known benefits to breastfeeding your child, but a new study is challenging the actual longevity of those benefits. And the results are not what we were expecting. Recently published in the journal Pediatrics, the study evaluated nearly 8,000 Irish children when they were 3 and 5 years old to learn more about the impact of breastfeeding on their cognitive and noncognitive development in the long run. For these assessments, the parents were asked to provide infor
