In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, here are some facts about the relationship between breastfeeding and communication development: --Breastfeeding promotes normal oral-facial development. --Breastfeeding improves coordination of the mouth, lips, and jaw muscles. --Several studies have shown breastfeeding to enhance speech development and speech clarity, and others have shown no speech differences between breastfeeding and bottle-feeding. --Breastfed infants have shown the fastest growth of white matter in the brain while both breastfed and formula-fed babies have also shown more growth than infants who consumed formula alone. --Babies who were breastfed for more than a year have demonstrated significantly enhanced areas of the brain involving motor function compared to infants breastfed for less than a year. --As older infants, breastfed babies have shown better performances in language, visual reception, and motor control. --Breastfeeding in general has been shown to reduce costs and help families avoid high medical bills for infection-related treatments. Information retrieved from the links included in the first comment of this post.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:16:18 +0000
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