Breast Milk Associated With Greater Mental Development in Preterm Infants, Fewer Re-hospitalizations – October 1, 2007

Posted by National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases on October 1st, 2007 at 10:07am

Extremely low birth weight premature infants who received breast milk shortly after birth, while still in intensive care units, had greater mental development scores at 30 months than did infants who were not fed breast milk, reported researchers in an NIH network. Moreover, infants fed breast milk were less likely to have been re-hospitalized after their initial discharge than were the infants not fed breast milk.

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