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

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.