Though pediatricians and public-health officials have fought to increase the practice of breastfeeding, their efforts have often proven fruitless in a world of out-of-wedlock childbirths and out-of-home maternal employment. And unfortunately, evidence continues to mount that children deprived of breastfeeding in infancy pay a price later on. The latest evidence comes from a study in […]
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- Post by: Bryce J. Christensen
- January 8, 2017
Among the indicators of good infant health, one that receives relatively little attention is the presence in the neonatal gut of the right kinds of bacteria. A number of factors can affect the makeup of the microbes living in a baby’s gut, but a new study identifies family structure as a predictor of the relative […]
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