It’s the closest to “home” he can get. It seems that this is pretty universal among babies – lactation consultants all over the world have noticed the same thing.
Making the decision to breastfeed is a personal matter. It's also one that's likely to draw strong opinions from friends and family.
Many medical authorities, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, strongly recommend breastfeeding. But you and your baby are unique, and the decision is up to you.
A team of researchers from the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University has published a paper on the role breastfeeding plays in the development of a child’s ADHD in later life. The research itself was designed to examine this relationship and their finding clearly indicate that periods of longer exclusive breastfeeding, specifically six months or more, is negatively correlated to the emergence of ADHD later in the child’s life.
The research team was under the leadership of Aviva Mimouni-Bloch, MD, and their work was published in Breastfeeding Medicine.
To understand the relationship, the scientists compared the breastfeeding history along with other environmental factors of children between six and 12 years of age who had received a medical diagnosis of ADHD to two different groups of kids of the same age without the disorder to act as control groups.
The first control group was composed of children did not have ADHD but had a sibling with the condition. This was to ensure a similar genetic makeup and environment. The second control group was comprised of other children of the same age but did not have the condition, nor did their siblings.