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Returning to an era where women had endless babies and breastfed for two years or more at a time was not an option, Beral told the Guardian.

Her first daughter contracted AIDS through being breastfed by her mother and died before her 10th birthday.

Q: Up to what age can a baby stay well nourished by just being breastfed?

The more children a woman had and the longer she breastfed, the lower her risk was of later contracting breast cancer.

For those babies not breastfed, a follow-on formula may be the next best choice.

The normal stool of a breastfed baby is yellow and loose (soft to runny) and may be seedy or curdy .

Infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health.

A: The new standard establishes breastfeeding as the biological norm and the breastfed infant as the standard for growth and development.

To put a point on it, 7 percent of breastfed kids were obese 3-year-olds compared with 13 percent of the formula drinkers.

She is the mother of two breastfed sons, mother-in-law of two wonderful young women and grandmother of two beautiful breastfed children.

A child's immune system may be weakened by malnutrition or undernourishment, especially in infants who are not exclusively breastfed.

Frequent passing of formed stools is not diarrhoea, nor is the passing of loose, "pasty" stools by breastfed babies.

And since breast milk is easily digested, breastfed babies have fewer incidences of diarrhea or constipation.

Women who had breastfed for 13 months or more had half the chance of getting rheumatoid arthritis as those who had never breastfed.

Globally less than 40% of infants under six months of age are exclusively breastfed.

They also found that babies who were not breastfed were 50 times more likely to have diarrhea.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that breastfed infants receive a vitamin D supplement of 400 IU per day.

She says even more lives could be saved if many more women breastfed their babies.

Breastfed babies also use fewer healthcare dollars, because of fewer visits to the doctor and fewer serious illnesses.

Infant formula powder is important for the growth of non-breastfed babies.

As long as no diagnosis of iron-deficiency anaemia is made by a doctor, then no iron supplements for infants who are breastfed are needed.

Close up of baby drinking from bottleBottle-fed babies lie back and drink what they are given, unlike breastfed babies.

According to the website KidsHealth. org, breastfed infants have less difficulty with digestion than their formula-fed counterparts.

An exclusively breastfed infant can develop vitamin B12 deficiency if the mother is a vegan.

Breastfed and formula-fed babies grow at different rates.

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The new standards are based on the breastfed child as the norm for growth and development.

Infants who are being breastfed should get 400 International Units (IUs) a day of supplement vitamin D until they are weaned.

This is the percentage of infants who were breastfed during the first two months of life, representing a net increase in 10 years.

Observing 63 mothers who exclusively breastfed, Walshaw and associates divided the women into 2 groups.

Regardless of when they started eating solid foods, breastfed babies in the study had a one in 14 chance of being obese as preschoolers.

On average about 35% of infants 0 to 6 months old are exclusively breastfed.

The photo showed Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who says her mother breastfed her until she was 6 years old.

it increases the IQ of children breastfed for four weeks or more by around three points;

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