Babies who are breastfed for longer score better on tests of thinking skills even as they enter secondary school, researchers have found.
A team from the University of Oxford said their results held true even after taking into account mothers’ intelligence levels and families’ wealth.
They analysed data for almost 8,000 babies born between 2000 and 2002, who were followed until age 14 as part of the UK Millennium Cohort Study.
