Mothers breastfeeding at the Fabella Memorial Hospital. Manila, Philippines. 16/03/2010.
MANILA, Philippines/March 16, 2010 – Children who were breastfeed by their mother are more intelligence than those infant who used formula.
This was revealed by Children for Breastfeed, Inc and the Mensa Philippines, Inc who intered into a memorandum of agreement to intensify the promotion on the importance of breastfeeding in a child’s brain development.
Mensa is an organization composed of people with high Intelligence Quotient or IQ. In the past, the group convinced SM malls to put up breast feeding rooms for their customers. There are now 34 SM malls nationwide with breastfeeding rooms.
In 2006, the group also achieved a new Guinness World Record for the most number of breastfeeding mothers in a single site by gathering 3,541 mothers at the San Andres Sports Complex in Manila. They beat the record of Berkley, California that only gathered 1,130 breastfeeding mothers in a single site.
They also set another Guinness World Record for gathering the most number of breastfeeding mothers in multiple sites. In May 2007, they gathered 15,128 mothers in 295 sites.
They also motivated President Arroyo to declare Aug. 1 to 7 of every year as World Breastfeeding Week, to increase breastfeeding awareness.
