Breastfeeding Won’t Make Your Child Smarter In The Long Run, Study Says

Of course, the new study does have some limitations. Breastfeeding was broken into big time bands ? so babies who were breastfed between 32 and 180 days were looped into one large group, for example. That means that babies with potentially very different feeding experiences were analyzed together, which may “dilute the impact” of longer periods of breastfeeding, Dr. Lydia Furman, a pediatrician with Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine wrote in an editorial accompanying the findings.