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Breastfeeding beyond infancy can be beneficial for children and parents – mothers explain pressure they feel to stop

By Amy Burton, Senior Lecturer and Health Psychologist, Staffordshire University
Breastfeeding beyond infancy is recommended by the World Health Organization, which advises that children should be breastfed until two years old.

For children, breastfeeding for longer is associated with reduced infections, a lower chance of misaligned teeth, a lower likelihood of obesity and higher intelligence]. And for mothers breastfeeding for more than a year,…The Conversation


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