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Psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and mothers
While the nutritional and physical health benefits of breastfeeding are well established, accumulating research demonstrates the far-reaching psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and their mothers. Here, we provide a non-exhaustive review of the empirical evidence, showing that breastf...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6096620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29934681 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00103-018-2769-0 |
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author | Krol, Kathleen M. Grossmann, Tobias |
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description | While the nutritional and physical health benefits of breastfeeding are well established, accumulating research demonstrates the far-reaching psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and their mothers. Here, we provide a non-exhaustive review of the empirical evidence, showing that breastfeeding impacts children’s brain, cognitive, and socio-emotional development. In mothers, research is presented indicating that breastfeeding influences mood, affect, stress, and maternal care. The current review aims to provide a broad overview of existing findings on the psychological effects of breastfeeding, highlighting the important role that breastfeeding plays across several dimensions of psychological functioning. We also discuss the potential mechanisms that may underpin the observed effects, provide a constructive commentary on the limitations of the existing work, and put forth some considerations when evaluating this line of research. |
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spelling | pubmed-60966202018-08-24 Psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and mothers Krol, Kathleen M. Grossmann, Tobias Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz Leitthema While the nutritional and physical health benefits of breastfeeding are well established, accumulating research demonstrates the far-reaching psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and their mothers. Here, we provide a non-exhaustive review of the empirical evidence, showing that breastfeeding impacts children’s brain, cognitive, and socio-emotional development. In mothers, research is presented indicating that breastfeeding influences mood, affect, stress, and maternal care. The current review aims to provide a broad overview of existing findings on the psychological effects of breastfeeding, highlighting the important role that breastfeeding plays across several dimensions of psychological functioning. We also discuss the potential mechanisms that may underpin the observed effects, provide a constructive commentary on the limitations of the existing work, and put forth some considerations when evaluating this line of research. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018-06-22 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6096620/ /pubmed/29934681 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00103-018-2769-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Leitthema Krol, Kathleen M. Grossmann, Tobias Psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and mothers |
title | Psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and mothers |
title_full | Psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and mothers |
title_fullStr | Psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and mothers |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and mothers |
title_short | Psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and mothers |
title_sort | psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and mothers |
topic | Leitthema |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6096620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29934681 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00103-018-2769-0 |
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