Breast Feeding Infants Throughout history, doctors have urged women to breast-feed their infants. Yet, mistaken ideas of efficiency in medical and infant care have combined to bring about a big decline in the number of women breast-feeding their infants today, as compared to a hundred ago. (Gerald, 1970, p.5) The decline in the number of women breast-feeding has increased the infant mortality rate because of malnutrition. (Discover, 1992, p.15) When they began recording the mortality figures, in the nineteenth century, doctors realized that many more bottle-fed infants had died in the first year than breast-fed infants. Recently, doctors have found evidence that the brain of an infant that does not get enough protein will not develop the normal number of brain cells. Not even an excellent diet provided later could make up for the damag....

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