A recent study published in the medical journal “Pediatrics” in July found that breastfeeding longer than three months may protect against bed-wetting during childhood. The research involved two groups of children — those who were wetting the bed and those who were not. Participants of both groups were asked about whether they were breastfed and for how long. It turned out to be that the children who wet the bed at night were 81% less likely to have been breastfed for more than three months. “Breastfeeding has been associated with several developmental advantages in kids,” says Joseph Barone, M.D., chief of pediatric urology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey. “Bed-wetting is considered a developmental delay. It also runs in the family. If one parent wet the bed as a child, then their child has a 40% chance of wetting the bed. If both parents wet the bed, then it’s 80% likely their child will. Breastfeeding may protect against that. All of this is another piece of information for parents to look at when they’re trying to decide whether or not to breastfeed.”