Infants with the HIV virus are more likely to pass away if they are breast fed than if they are formula-fed.
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One study showed that children who were breast fed generally had IQs about eight points higher than children who were bottle fed.
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Today, babies get vitamin K in shots and baby formula, but Sarah, delivered by a midwife and then breast fed, got neither.
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"I will tell him that I breast fed him in this little room, and that I sang songs to him, " she says.
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She said this is virtually identical to the 106 score of a separate group of babies, in another study, who were breast fed only.
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Del claimed in " Mother Nature's Son " that Rodney was still being breast fed until he was three and a half years old.
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Birch said this is virtually identical to the 106 score of a separate group of babies, in another study, who were breast fed only.
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The study also planned to include two groups : infants breast fed by mothers who are receiving antiretroviral therapy and babies fed only infant formula.
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Although exposure to amniotic fluid is eliminated after birth, breast fed babies have continued contact with cues from the mother s nipple and areola area.
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"Studies show that around 1.5 million children die each year because they are not adequately breast fed, " said UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy in a statement.
