Breast-feeding: what you should know so you can talk to your patients.
Besides providing optimal nutrition for the normal newborn, breast milk has several distinctive nonnutritive advantages that make it a superior choice over formula. Among those are the fact that it contains phagocytic and immunocompetent cells and promotes intestinal mucosal maturation.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield 62794-9230, USA.
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