Comments on: The Scientific Benefits of Breastfeeding

By: Soon to be mom

Soon to be mom — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:27:15 +0000

Thankfully we all have a choice of what to do with our bodies and what doesn’t work for us. Sadly those who so enthusiastically promote bf and condemn those who chose not to, go on to feed their kids McDonald’s and Coke later on in life. I believe that is far worse than not ever bf your children.

By: monkeypedia

monkeypedia — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:16:24 +0000

I’m new to exploring your site, so perhaps this is in another post I haven’t yet found, but are you aware of studies showing that expressed breast milk is healthier than formula? Pumping, especially exclusively pumping, is so mentally and physically taxing for the women I know who do it (not to mention extraordinarily time consuming), and pretty much all of the information I can find conflates breast milk with breastfeeding. It’s not clear to me so far that bottle feeding breast milk has actually been shown to be better than bottle feeding formula.

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By: Alicia Leiter

Alicia Leiter — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:30:25 +0000

I am glad that you point out also the benefits of breastfeeding for the mother. People usually tend to underestimate them. Great post!

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By: Ashley M

Ashley M — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:53:43 +0000

Something I feel like is missing from your analysis of these scientific findings though is that the studies showing X% of children who were breast fed dont get X are correlative not causal conclusions. Empirically, this does not prove that breastfeeding makes babies healthier, but that babies who breast fed had a lower incidence rate of X disease. To date, there has never been a study that “proves” breastfeeding is the sole reason these babies were healthier (it could be that those mothers made better health choices). To do that, they would have to do a controlled human study which will never happen on infants. All of this is to say, there has never been any study that has been able to locate or pin point what makes breastfeeding “best” or that can prove that it is. If you asked any of those researchers, they would say there was a correlation, which is different from breastfeeding causing metabolic changes.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:58:23 +0000

@Doc – nice to hear a lone voice of reason on this.

By: Dildo

Dildo — Tue, 24 May 2011 12:00:56 +0000

Awesome site, so glad to see others with open minds.

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When it is not breast | PhD in Parenting — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:35:36 +0000

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