Breast Milk Linked to Significant Early Brain Growth in Premature Babies

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A team of researchers studying preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children’s Hospital found that premature babies whose daily diets consisted of 50 percent breast milk had more brain tissue by their due dates than premature babies who consumed significantly less breast milk.

One notable finding is that researchers didn’t distinguish between milk from the babies’ own mothers and milk donated by other women.

Breastfeeding has numerous positive effects on children, one of which is reduce risk for obesity.

The researchers plan to follow these babies through their first years of life to look at their growth and motor, cognitive, and social development, because researchers believe they will be able to determine the effects of early exposure to breast milk on later developmental outcomes.

Learn more about this study, here.

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