When a mother has her new child, she faces a tough decision: breastfeed or formula feed? Perhaps a combination of both? Many mothers have reservations about breastfeeding because of the time commitment and concerns over producing enough milk, but also fear that formula feeding could impact their baby's health. Are these fears warranted, or is formula feeding a safe and effective alternative to the natural method?
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Breastfeeding is the Biological "Gold Standard"
- From La Leche League International
By La Leche League International - Happy Mothers/Breastfed Babies
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Formula feeding is not like smoking or failing to use a car seat
We know how dangerous it is to fail to use a car seat or to smoke cigarettes. There is solid research on those topics. But there is only accumulated folk wisdom about formula feeding. Mothers should be able to make decisions about their child-raising with reliable expertise and good judgment; instead we give them moralizing and scare tactics.
- Scardanelli September 17, 2008 8:26AM
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re:Formula feeding is not like smoking or failing to use a car seat
It actually is equivalent. There is plenty of research out there that shows this. Formula feeding is very inferior when compared to breast milk. There are living properties in human milk that protect babies and cannot be duplicated in formula. Why anyone would choose less than the best for their child is beyond me.
- Iknowbetter
September 18, 2008 8:54PM
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I think this is really a very good analogy. There is an abundance of evidence that shows that not breastfeeding a baby has risks, just as not using a car seat or smoking has risks. Why are we afraid to talk about the risks of not breastfeeding? This is a major public health issue that is as important as car seat use, smoking, eating low fat diets.
As women each of us has to decide how we will feed our baby. To make this decision we need to know the facts and not ignore the research that tells us that there are indeed risks to using formula.
- Linda Wieser
September 27, 2008 10:21AM
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Amen!
You hit it on the head! This is a great analogy. I was just telling someone else that just flippantly saying formula is okay is risky, and dangerous. Its downright irresponsible to say that its absolutely carries no risk. We absolutely cannot ignore the research. Sure some people will argue that its a weak correlation, but thousands of papers are still saying the same thing.
- WIC Nutritionist
March 18, 2009 12:36AM
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