A STUDY claiming that babies who aren't exclusively
breast-fed for the first six months of their life are more likely to become obese split opinion among our online readers.
Not all moms choose to or are physically able to breast-feed; for those who do, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that infants be
breast-fed during the first year for the best health outcomes.
The relative risk for bottle fed infants ending exclusive
breast-fed as compared to syringe fed infants is 1.01 (95% CI = 0.82; 1.24).
Children who were
breast-fed exclusively for the first six months of life were less likely to have teeth alignment issues than those who were
breast-fed for a shorter time or bottle-fed, the American Dental Association (ADA) says.
Although breast-feeding is nearly universal in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, only 63% of children under six months are exclusively
breast-fed. In addition, only 58% are put to breast within the first day of life and only 25% are started on breast-feeding in the first hour of life.
But the Maternal Healthcare Law and other legislation soon required hospitals to 'room-in' their babies, meaning the babies, after being bathed, should be immediately brought to the mother's room and
breast-fed.
Researchers analyzed over 1,600 women with breast cancer and found that those who previously
breast-fed had a 30% overall decreased risk of breast cancer recurrence: this link was not as strong among women who
breast-fed for less than 6 months.
According to WHO, if every child was
breast-fed within an hour of birth, given only breast milk for their first six months of life, and continued breast-feeding up to the age of two years, about 800,000 child lives would be saved every year.
The rate of
breast-fed babies in Redcar and Cleveland has fallen 1.8% since 2005.
GREATER support is needed in County Durham where less than a third of newborns are still being
breast-fed by the time they are eight weeks old, it was claimed last night.
He quoted a survey by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) which suggested that among infants 0 - 6 months old, 25.7% were reported to be exclusively
breast-fed while 51.3% were mix-fed.
A study of more than 2,200 women found that mothers who
breast-fed their babies for at least one month had noticeably lower rates of type 2 diabetes later in life than mothers who never
breast-fed.