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Article: Breast milk benefits tiniest infants
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- July 5, 2006
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
07-05-2006
Breast milk benefits tiniest infants
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 07-05-2006, Wednesday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions
CHICAGO The tiniest premature infants fed with breast milk in the hospital did better on tests of mental development later in life than did others fed only formula, a new study has found.
The research is the first to show the benefits of breast milk for babies born weighing less than 2 pounds, 3 ounces. With medical advances, hospitals are saving more of these babies, some born more than three months early.
For these infants, brain development that normally would occur in the womb during the third trimester ...