While the nutritional and physical health benefits of breastfeeding are well established,
accumulating research demonstrates the far-reaching psychological effects of breastfeeding …

Breastfeeding is associated with long-term wellbeing including low risks of infectious
diseases and non-communicable diseases such as asthma, cancer, autoimmune diseases …

Mothers are recommended to exclusively breastfeed their infants for the first six months of
their lives. Also, after the sixth month, breastfeeding should continue with added …

In the emergence of diverse animal life forms, food is the most insistent and pervasive of
environmental pressures. As the life sciences begin to understand organisms in genomic …

As mothers seek out information around breastfeeding, many are turning to online message
boards, listservs, or social media for advice. Babycenter. com, a parenting website with …

Background: While numerous studies have demonstrated maternal depression's influence
on infant brain development, few studies have examined the changes that occur as a …

Studies report inconsistent findings on the relationship between ASD and breastfeeding. We
explored associations between ASD and breastfeeding initiation (yes/no) and duration …

Background Breast milk expression (breast pumping) has become prevalent as an important
dimension of breastfeeding behavior. It is, however, not clear whether increasing breast milk …

Attending to emotional information conveyed by the eyes is an important social skill in
humans. The current study examined this skill in early development by measuring attention …

Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs involved in
posttranscriptional regulation. miRNAs can be secreted and found in many body fluids, and …