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What are some statistics on the health of infants that were raised with bottle feeding and breastfeeding?

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Dr. Jay Park answered

Cognitive developmen: Breastfed infants have a potential to develop higher cognitive function, higher IQ by 4 points.

Dr Juchau agreed

Answered 9/15/2015

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