Suckling-not to be confused with sucking an enormously complex series of behaviors
which have important consequences for
the physiologic and psychological development
of the child. Dr. Francis T. Pottenger,
Jr., and Dr. Bernard Krohn have found that
the facial bones, jaws, teeth, and occlusion of
the teeth develop more favorably in the
breast-fed than in the bottle-fed infant.‘4@
Frances Broad,16-@ in a study of 319 New
Zealand white children, found that the breastfed
were in all aspects of speech development-
clarity of articulation, tonal quality,
reading ability-as well as general confidence,
superior to the bottle-fed.