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This video from TV360 talks about the differences between breast feeding and formula feeding your child.

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Susan: Hi, I'm Susan from Buffalo, New York. And I would love to know the medical benefits for the breast feed baby as opposed to formula feed. Joe Gigante: Yeah, Susan, human breast milk is the absolute best food that you can give your new born infant. There are lots of different medical benefits that are related to breast feeding. Probably most importantly is that children who are breast feed have much fewer infections. So common infections that we see in children, like ear infections, colds, pneumonias, urinary tract infections are much less common in kids who breast feed as opposed to kids who formula feed. There have also been some studies that suggest that infants who breast feed are much less likely to die from SIDS or sudden infant death syndrome than kids who formula feed.