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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"risks" to breastfeeding??!!
Give you a break???
Women are being made to feel guilty about not breast feeding their little ones, and "scared". I don't think her point is to say there are substantial risks... she's just pointing out that it's not 100% pure. Her point is those same people making those feel guilty talk about the chemicals in formula when breast milk also contains contaminates. That's not to say breast milk is not best. It's just stating that people understand the data and all the research.
Breast milk is not free of contaminants and it's not 100% pure. Why???? Because man has done disastrous things to our environment . Your argument is like saying why would anyone be apposed to eating an apple. Apples are natural. However, we humans use a boat load of pesticides on those apples. Yes, chemicals. I'm sure there are those that would argue to only eat organic apples and that non-organic apples can be harmful. The simple truth is that even the natural has risks. They may be small, but they're there because we don't live in the garden of eden anymore. To think that your breast milk can't be contaminated is just misleading. That is why mothers are told not to drink alcohol or take certain medications when feeding. We can pass bad things to our babies that way. Nothing is fool proof.
I'm not advocating formula over breast milk. But the scare tactics of those that try to force breast feeding on the public has become obnoxious and borderline fanatical. This author is just showing that the data being used in these scare tactics has a lot of holes. She points to studies in her own articles.
Should we try to breast feed - of course. But to say we are harming our children by not doing so is extremely misleading and harmful. We live in a day and age where we depend a lot on substitutes - vitamins, eye glasses, heck even disposable diapers... just because they aren't natural, doesn't mean they're bad for you.
- EBHLive
June 28, 2009 3:41PM
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