The WHO, beside UNICEF and the AEPIn addition to many other scientific societies, they recommend that babies drink exclusive breast milk until 6 months and continue breastfeeding, at least until two years.
These recommendations are given for the benefits for both the mother and the baby, of which we have already spoken on several occasions, which seem to be extended with the results of a new study that suggests that The time that a baby is in the womb in gestation and the time that is breastfed after birth is directly proportional to the size of your brain.
According to the researchers, who have analyzed various studies with humans and others conducted with 127 species of mammals, the results obtained confirm that breastfeeding a healthy food for baby development.
The study was carried out at the University of Durhan and they observed that the duration of pregnancy was very much related to the size of the brain at birth, demonstrating once again (and they go ...) that the ideal is for children to be born at the time the birth is triggered naturally (when the woman goes into labor).
They also saw that, at the time babies were born, brain growth was closely linked to the time babies were breastfed: the more breastfeeding, the more brain growth.
As the study authors explain:
We know that large brain species develop more slowly, mature later and live longer, but what has not always been clear is why brains and life history are related.
As they comment there is a theory that people with larger brains live longer, because their behavioral responses to various challenges appear to be more flexible. Another theory they are considering is that these people live longer for another reason, as it would be the improvement of specific perceptual and cognitive abilities.
Knowing this breastfeeding becomes, even more, the best feeding for babies and especially for premature babies, who spend less time in the womb born with a smaller brain that has to start growing outside.
