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A New Reason to Breastfeed Your Baby

  • November 19, 2004

As you know, I'm a strong advocate of breastfeeding because it improves you and your baby's health in so many ways. If you haven't made the choice to breastfeed yet, a study conducted by Italian researchers gives you another really good reason: Babies who were bottle-fed and had sucked their thumb or a dummy were twice as likely to have crooked milk teeth as breastfed infants. Breastfeeding appears to protect against thumb and dummy sucking damage, possibly down to its affect on mouth...