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>I just got my special edition of Newsweek magazine about Your Child From
>Birth to Three. There is a pretty good article about breastfeeding boosting a
>child's IQ score. However, there is one line that baffles me: "It's potent
>enough to keep babies alive for the first 16 weeks of life."
>
>Surely, the author didn't mean WEEKS? Could people really believe breastmilk
>could only keep a baby alive for 16 weeks?
This is an odd way of saying the babies can be excusively breastfed for 4
months before you need to start adding solids.
Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Nutrition
Texas A&M University