• Higher IQs _{(Horta, Mola, & Victora 2015)}
• Larger brains _{(Luby, Belden, Whalen, Harms, & Barch, 2016, p. 367)}
• Reduce risk of childhood leukaemia _{(Amitay & Keinan-Boker 2015)}
• Easier to digest as it's 50-80% whey protein (rather than largely casein protein in formulas)
• Less likely to be overweight as a teenager _{(Moore, 2018)}
• Less likely to develop Diabetes later in life _{(Patelarou et al., 2012)}
• Less likely to develop middle ear infections _{(Lodge, Bowatte, Matheson, & Dharmage, 2016)}

Breastfeeding has many benefits for the lactating mumma such as lowering the risk of:

• Ovarian cancer _{(Li 2014)} 
• Breast cancer _{(Zhou et al. 2015)}
• Endometrial cancer _{(Jordan 2017)}
  
• Postpartum depression _{(Binns, Lee, & Low 2016)}
• Type 2 Diabetes _{(Binns, Lee, & Low 2016)}
• Multiple sclerosis _{(Conradi 2012)}
• Osteoporosis
• Postpartum uterine / placental bleeding _{(Uvnas-Moberg 1996)}
• Cardiovascular disease _{(Kirkegaard et al. 2018) (Schwarz et al. 2009)}
• High cholesterol _{(Schwarz et al. 2009)}
• High blood pressure _{(Binns, Lee, & Low 2016)}

In fact, any breastfeeding at all reduces the changes of breast, ovarian or endometrial cancer _{(Zhou et al. 2015) 
(Li 2014) (Jordan 2017)}. The longer the breastfeeding continues for, the biggest the reduction in risk of these cancer that there is for the breastfeeding mumma _{(Zhou et al. 2015) (Li 2014) (Jordan 2017)}.

In some nationalities, this may be more pronounced than others. A Sri Lankan study showed that collectively breastfeeding for 2-3 years across all their children, resulted in an 88% decreased risk of developing breast cancer _{(De Silva, Senarath, Gunatilake, & Lokuhetty 2010)}.

Breastfeeding also has other benefits, like:

• Oxytocin release to aid bonding _{(Chua, 1994; Uvnas-Moberg, 1996)}
• Lose weight faster _{(Kramer, 1993)}
• Can delay the return to menstruation
• Prolonged breastfeeding may prevent the return of endometriosis in some women _{(Havard, 1995)}