Find out what you know and learn some new benefits! Take this quiz about the Benefits of Breastfeeding:

True or False?

• Artificially fed babies are more likely to be hospitalized, especially in the first four months of life.
• Women who do not breastfeed have an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
• The cost of purchasing artificial formula for the first year of life ranges from $800 to $1,200.
• Babies who are breastfed develop higher IQs and have better brain and nervous system development.
• Artificially fed babies are more likely to need eyeglasses.
• Babies who are not breastfed have an increased risk of diabetes.
• Artificially fed babies have more allergies.
• Women who do not breastfeed have an increased risk of anemia.
• Babies who are not breastfed have an increased risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome).
• Breastfeeding is safer for premature babies.
• Babies who are not breastfed have an increased risk of heart disease in later life.
• Because breastfed babies are healthier, mothers that breastfeed take less time off work for family illness than mothers of babies fed artificial formula.

Answers: All statements are true. Human milk is made for human babies.

by Dixie Whetsell