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Article: Breast milk benefits tiniest of preemies
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- July 5, 2006
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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 of pregnancy must occur in the
neonatal intensive care unit of a hospital, said study co-author Dr.
Betty Vohr of Brown Medical School.
Ingredients in breast milk, particularly fatty ...