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.
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield 62794-9230, USA.
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