Study: “Breastfed Babies are Less Likely to Become Angry and Irritable Adults”
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16 Feb 2012
“ANY BREASTFEEDING mother knows that breastfeeding positively affects her baby’s temperament, but a new study finds these effects last into adulthood.
A long term study conducted in Finland claims, “breastfeeding may have long-term effects on offspring hostility”. The study, published in the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, tracked around 2,000 individuals from birth to the age of twenty-four.
According to Dr Päivi Merjonen, of the University of Turku, “Those who were not breastfed in infancy had higher levels of adult hostility than those who were breastfed…”
ECOCHILDSPLAY.COM 12 February
