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The Canadian Paediatric Society reported that breastfeeding is associated with "improved cognitive development."<ref name="cps2013" />
The American Academy of Pediatrics reports reported that, as compared with formula feeding, breastfeeding reduces Sudden Infant Death Syndromesudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), infant and neonatal mortality, lower respiratory tract infection, severe or persistent diarrhea, otitis media, asthma, eczema, Crohn's disease, colitis, childhood and adult obesity, diabetes, and leukemia.<ref name="aap2022" />
==Circumcision impairs commencement of breastfeeding==
Neonatal [[circumcision]] is a medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic, intensely painful surgery that is carried out just the time when breastfeeding is being commenced. Circumcision causes extreme [[pain]], [[trauma]], and [[shock]]. The infant boy is left in a debilitated state in which he is unable to manage to breastfeed,<ref>{{REFjournal