I have no clue why breastfeeding would make a baby smarter. All I know is that as adults boobs seem to make a lot of men act like idiots...: )
LOL!
I’ll have to tell my wife about the study. We had preemie twins in the hospital for quite awhile, and they wouldn’t breastfeed for awhile. She had the pump thing going and bringing milk to the hospital. And once we filled up our freezer, borrowed room in the neighbors!
Once they were home and finally taking to the breast it was usually alternating, but often one on each at a time! (She’s glad we didn’t have triplets!)
I recall her telling the doc that she hardly got any sleep as once she was done with one, she would doze off, and then the other one would awaken.
“You know all those packets of frozen milk you have? When the one wakes up you feed her. And get your husband up to heat up the frozen milk and he wakes the other one and feeds her.”
Obviously a good idea, but....
“I have no clue why breastfeeding would make a baby smarter.”
Thinking about what my wife went through to get them to finally breastfeed - it may have nothing to do with the actual milk. But the devotion and love by the mother, willing to try and do everything for her baby. That obviously doesn’t end at breastfeeding.
I’m sure many women would have just gone with regular milk and not put up with all of the stuff my wife did. I’m pretty sure that cow’s milk has also been proven to not have all the right “ingredients” - which would make sense.
And I’m not a big one on eating hormone/chemical free foods, but I imagine that stuff is present in cow’s milk and may have some adverse effects.
It is way too early to be LMAO over your comments!
You got that right! My daughter nurses our grandson (18 months) and he is quite the smart little fella!