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The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that, as compared with formula feeding, breastfeeding reduces Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, 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 |last=Lee |first= |init=N |author-link= |etal=no |title=Circumcision and Breastfeeding |journal=J Hum Lact |date=2000 |volume=16 |issue=4 |article= |page=295 |pages= |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/birth/lee1/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=15675048 |accessdate=2022-12-07}}</ref> <ref>{{REFjournal |last=Caplan |first= |init=L |author-link= |etal=no |title=Circumcisionand Breastfeeding: A Response to Nikki Lee's Letter |journal=J Hum Lact |location= |date=2001 |volume=17 |issue=1 |article= |page=7 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/birth/caplan1/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=11847856 |accessdate=2022-12-07}}</ref> which frequently results in the introduction of formula feeding to the detriment of the boys's health.
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