Breast-feeding: what you should know so you can talk to your patients
Duerbeck, N.B.
Comprehensive Therapy 24(6-7): 310-318
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0098-8243 PMID: 9669095 Document Number: 491699
Besides providing optimal nutrition for the normal newborn, breast milk has several distinctive nonnutritive advantages that make it a superior choice over formula. Among those are the fact that it contains phagocytic and immunocompetent cells and promotes intestinal mucosal maturation.
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