BabyBlog

Sponsor Media

BabyBlog Resources

BabyBlog Blogroll

  • J&J Pediatric Institute
    The Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute, is dedicated to saving mothers and babies by addressing critical health priorities around the world through collaboration.
  • Enfamil
    We've dedicated ourselves to the health and well-being of babies and toddlers. For nearly a century, we've been working with doctors and nutritionalists to help parents bring up healthy, happy babies.
  • Welcome Addition (Similac)
    Provides parents helpful insight on infant nutrition and offers useful information on breast feeding as well as detailed descriptions of infant formula containing DHA and ARA.
  • Very Best Baby (Good Start)
    You aspire to do the very best for your baby, and that's why we created this resource with sound advice from our community of health care professionals and experienced parents.
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    Dedicated to the health and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults.
  • Baby.com
    Johnson & Johnson has been committed to maternal and newborn care for over 100 years. That's why we created baby.com, a Web site dedicated to providing you with articles and information geared to every stage of your baby's development.
  • March Of Dimes
    Welcome to the March of Dimes National Web site! Inside you will find information and answers about pregnancy, your baby, folic acid, prematurity, genetic disorders, birth defects and much more.

Sponsor Links


My Online Status

Sponsor Video

« Bucking the norm, some families think big: Could 4, 5, even 6 kids become suburbia's new status symbol? | Main | 87 percent of parents believe scholarships and grants will cover at least part of their children's undergraduate expenses »

Breast feeding has little or no effect on intelligence in children. While breast feeding has many advantages for the child and mother, enhancement of the child's intelligence is unlikely to be among them.

Effect of breast feeding on intelligence in children: prospective study, sibling pairs analysis, and meta-analysis.

Results The mother's IQ was more highly predictive of breastfeeding status than were her race, education, age, poverty status, smoking, the home environment, or the child's birth weight or birth order. One standard deviation advantage in maternal IQ more than doubled the odds of breast feeding. Before adjustment, breast feeding was associated with an increase of around 4 points in mental ability. Adjustment for maternal intelligence accounted for most of this effect. When fully adjusted for a range of relevant confounders, the effect was small (0.52) and non-significant (95% confidence interval -0.19 to 1.23). The results of the sibling comparisons and meta-analysis corroborated these findings.
Via: British Medical Journal

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341cce4453ef00d8356b487369e2

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Breast feeding has little or no effect on intelligence in children. While breast feeding has many advantages for the child and mother, enhancement of the child's intelligence is unlikely to be among them.:

Comments

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Working...
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been saved. Comments are moderated and will not appear until approved by the author. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Working...

Post a comment

Comments are moderated, and will not appear until the author has approved them.