Practice Management

I can see it now.  Instead of those bumper stickers that say, "My Lawyer Can Beat Your Lawyer", they will now read, "My Lawyer Was Breast Fed".

Are you smarter than the average bear? 

According to the study detailed on Live Science, children who were breast-fed exclusively for the first three months of life or longer scored nearly six points higher on IQ tests at the age of 6 than children who were not breast-fed exclusively.  This is on top of other studies that suggest that adults who were breast-fed as infants scored better on IQ tests and other measures of cognitive development, such as thinking, learning and memory.  "Long and exclusive breast-feeding makes kids smarter," said lead researcher Dr. Michael S. Kramer, of McGill University and the Montreal Children's Hospital, in Canada.

Why breast-feeding might increase cognitive skills is not clear, but it has nothing to do with differences between mothers.

For the study, a group randomly assigned 7,108 infants in Belarus to exclusive breast-feeding; another 6,781 infants received the usual practice of breast-feeding plus other foods.  When the children were 6.5 years old they were given a standard IQ test. Those children who were exclusively breast-fed scored, on average, 7.5 points higher in verbal intelligence, 2.9 points higher in nonverbal intelligence, and 5.9 points higher in overall intelligence.  In addition, their teachers said the breast-fed children had significantly better academic performance in both reading and writing, compared with children who were not breast-fed exclusively.

I am not sure I am ready to put the fact that I was breast fed as a baby on my resume just yet, but I am apparently willing to brag about it (along with my superior intelligence) on my blog.

Should everybody be asking their lawyer if he or she were breast fed for at least three months as a child?  Maybe the bar-tenders will now require such a disclosure by all lawyers in the future.  In the meantime, are there any studies as to breast feeding and those that elect to work from home?