Formula risks...I believe
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Formula risks...I believe
| Wed, 10-24-2007 - 12:27pm |
Formula risks...I believe
- Formula has risks that are unacceptable if breastmilk is available
- Formula has risks but it's OK to choose it if you understand the risks
- Formula has risks but it's OK to choose it even if you DONT understand the risks
- Formula has some risks but they are overblown
- Formula has risks but so does breastmilk, and the risks are about the same
- Formula doesn't have any risks
- Other, please explain
You will be able to change your vote.

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Now, now, don't insult our source of such wonderful straw, I'm really enjoying my S'Mores!!!!
-jeanine
You are the only one lamenting the fact that your dh 'couldn't bond through feeding', as though feeding creates a superior bond.
And how do you measure these risks?
>>Where you are wrong is that you simply HOPE medications are safe for your baby. Sure, some of the literature says most medications are fine. But no one has studied the effects of mom's specific medications on breastfed children years later.
Also where you are wrong is that formula has no medications in it. Can't get mom's anti-depressants and valium into a formula-fed baby. Therefore, formula is safer in this regard. <<
I must agree with you on this, but I am a bit to the extreme on my hate of drug companies. I do not think that there have been enough studies to deem most medications safe. I have personally had interactions and reactions to certain medications that have scared the crap out of me and landed me in the hospital more than once (one batch of my normal meds was somehow contaminated with gluten which caused a horrible allergic reaction and I passed out and my blood/oxygen levels did not come back to normal for several hours). Also I was not supposed to be able to get pg with the mix of meds and b/c I was on (double and triple checked with the pharmacist and md) and well you can all see the pic of my cutie cute Gianna!!!
I do not really know of a way to solve this other than to err on the side of safety, which most bfing mom's that I know do. However, one can never be sure about a possible reaction to even a trace amount of a substance. It can be argued that the child would eventually, in the course of his/her life, have a run in with this substance, however as an infant it can be rather detrimental. I would just take this as part of the risk/benefit analysis that goes in to choosing how you will feed your children. Due to my disease being genetic (although my girls don't have any symptoms...yayayayayay!!!) I would not bf even if I could because if my girls were to react to something that I took in (food or drug) it would be bad, to say the least. In my case the ingredients in formula not changing as breast milk does, was actaully beneficial if my kids did react because there would be no elimination diet. It would still suck, but there is less of a list of components that they could have reacted to. I digress and know that my case is rare, but it does speak to a way that formula can be more beneficial to an infant than bfing, although the incidence of my disease is <1% so really my diatribe is kind of pointless....but I was feeling a bit left out!!!
"My uncle was hit by a train in the '80's, he wasn't wearing a seat belt either. He was thrown from the car and dragged by the train for a few hundred feet yet he still lived. Sure, he may not have been thrown from the car if he had had his seat belt on but hey, he lived....doesn't that meet the definition of "just fine"? "
Wow!
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Oh, I know! It tells me the peanut gallery has nothing to add to the debate but she's glad that there's at least one more FF on the board with the same level of disregard for the scientific method.
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In that case, the most logical course of action would be to err on the side of caution and not turn a baby into a guinea pig on which to test the "latest and greatest" approximation (ie, formula) of the biological standard (breastmilk).
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Yawn indeed. You've been provided with links and yours have been shredded...>>>
Wait a minute. She actually provided links?!?!? Damn, I missed that......
-jeanine
"And how do you measure these risks?
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