The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7251 p741
31 May 2003

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Smoking mothers should breast feed

Breastfeeding may counteract some of the harmful effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy, say Dutch researchers.

They looked at the results of school tests taken by 570 children at the age of nine years and recorded details of their mothers' smoking habits and how the mothers chose to feed their children. Only those children whose mothers had smoked during pregnancy and who had been bottle fed performed poorly on the school tests (Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2003;57:403).