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Baby’s Benefits

Do breastfed babies have a higher IQ?

Studies have shown that feeding your baby breast milk does increase your baby's brain growth, especially if your baby is born premature!

Breast milk has shown to help increase the IQ of children. The effect has been studied all the way through their teenage years.

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  • NIH Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development
  • Frontiers The Effect of Breastfeeding on Intelligence Quotient and Social Intelligence Among Seven- to Nine-Year-Old Girls: A Pilot Study
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