World Health Organization recommends that babies should be exclusively breastfed for six months. However, this becomes an uphill task for working moms who have to go back to work after their maternity leave lapses. To continue feeding the baby on breast milk even after resuming work needs planning and sacrifice to pull it up. […]
A new study suggests that the more breast milk premature babies are fed while in neonatal intensive care, the greater the level of brain development. When a baby is born premature, the cerebral cortex—the part of the brain for learning and thinking—is usually underdeveloped. The study discovered that pre-mature babies who consumed high levels of breast milk quickly […]