Babies aged from two to three months are less likely to suffer from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SID) if they are breastfed, suggests a new study published in the Archives of Diseases in Childhood (89: 22-25) last month.The findings are yet another indication that breast-feeding better protects the health of infants than formula milk. Arousal from sleep is thought to be one of the fundamental survival mechanisms that newborns use to avoid SID. Breastfed babies were found to be more easily aroused than babies fed formula milk at two-three months old, showed the Australian researchers, and therefore better protected from the syndrome.
