CHILD Cohort Study: New scientific insights into breastfeeding

The CHILD Cohort Study has made many exciting discoveries about how asthma, allergies, obesity and other chronic diseases develop in early childhood. One factor influencing these health outcomes is breastfeeding, which benefits babies in many ways and has longer-term positive impacts on health. CHILD research, involving nearly 3,500 Canadian moms and babies, has shown that breastfed babies have higher levels of beneficial gut bacteria and healthier growth patterns than babies who are not breastfed; that