Breastfeeding increases IQ

According to data from the Ministry of Health, children who were breastfed have IQs 4.3 points more

higher than those not given breast milk. IQ was also kept racing despite the

child no longer breast-fed. For after the comparison, at the age of three years,

breast-fed children have IQ of 4-6 points higher, and at age eight

years has an IQ 8.3 points higher than children who do not breast-fed.

Breastfeeding not only provides the best nutrition, but also warmth. So

emotional bonding, emotional attachment and the child's mother was awake. There are contacts

eyes, sweep, mother talk. During this time people see breastfeeding was an sich

nutrition, but does not. So breastfeeding is very powerful,''he said.

At the age of zero months, said Reni, nerve cells (neurons) in the infant brain most

just look straight course, only consists of the cell body and extension

from the tip of the cell body or dendrites. Baby's brain undergo a process of maturation when

of these cells formed a kind of stem that extends the so-called

axons. These axons form the ganglion are interconnected which makes

brain and all parts of the body communicate.

Installation of Sub Head of Nutrition Services Hospital Inpatient Room Hasan Sadikin

(RSHS), Bandung, Leni Yufrida Fayakun, said breast milk is the food

have the best nutrient content, which affects brain development.

The more mature brain nutrition of children by breastfeeding, she said,''will be easy memory

absorb various things.''

In addition, continuous stimulation at the age of 0-2 years, played a boost

Child's IQ significantly, reaching 15-30 points when he entered the age of 4-5 years.

Development''was actually still in the cup potential. That is, its potential

optimal growth. Because with milk and stimulation, a rapid sinapsnya

disconnected,''said Reni.

Age under three years, he said, is the golden period (golden age), because

brain growth reached 70-80 percent. The fact is, said Reni, who increasingly

prove the religious teaching that calls on mothers to breastfeed up to two years.

Because in addition to breast milk nutrition, there is also a stimulation of the mother at an important period

it. The remaining 20-30 percent are payable until the age of eight years, then

stopped.

Therefore, Reni asked the government to develop a neighborhood health center is not solely

as a place to weigh the baby, but also as a place to teach the

stimulate the child's mother. ''Due to give birth to a generation of smart, the

her mother must be smart first. If the city had much access to information. But

if in the villages, the average child left to grow and develop so

alone,''he said.

The importance of golden period which some experts set at the age below

three years (toddlers) scientist Sigmund Freud actually set at the time under

five years (toddlers) because the child's development is very rapid. In the golden period

, the absorption ability of children even reach 50 percent of which continues to decline

in subsequent years. When the golden period was utilized

simulation, Reni said the child's brain development, the better.

Nodes''will be more and more nervous,''he said. This stimulation is not

complicated. Senses are stimulated only distinguish smells, sounds, and other. Increasingly

large, introduced to numbers, letters, and so forth.