Formula risks...I believe

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Formula risks...I believe
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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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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 10-26-2007 - 4:36pm

Perhaps you should ask the writers of the paper that was linked?


PumpkinAngel

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Fri, 10-26-2007 - 4:37pm

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Please link to whatever you find, either way. TIA!

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Fri, 10-26-2007 - 4:37pm

Yep, I did.

PumpkinAngel

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Fri, 10-26-2007 - 4:37pm

I could care less what you find me.

I never disagreed with what you were stating, I was simply saying that although my children do not have the benefit of my antibodies, they can still fight off germs. They may not have that extra layer of protection but their immune systems still work. I have never once questioned that bf babies are protected by the antibodies made in breastmilk. I actually would love for my kids to have that extra protection, but they do still have working immune systems and I have only once gone to the er for any kind of illness (Accidents are another story, and it ended up being me overreacting and my daughter was perfectly fine with some motrin).

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Fri, 10-26-2007 - 4:39pm

"The statement that was originally made sounded as though a ffed kid has no capacity to fight off infection."


No, just that bfed babies have a better capacity to fight infection and this is proven, verifiable and well accepted.


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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 10-26-2007 - 4:40pm

I'm sorry, it was a link that supplied many articles, I thought it was easily accessed.

PumpkinAngel

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Fri, 10-26-2007 - 4:41pm

Which is what?

PumpkinAngel

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Fri, 10-26-2007 - 4:42pm
I really don't know I just remember reading it after I had Aria. I found it kind of weird for bm to be sour. I never said that it was common or anything, just since this thread was already filled with antecdotes about meth and cocaine figured that it kind of fit in.
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Fri, 10-26-2007 - 4:43pm

well, you asked ME to provide links showing ffed babies get sick more often and are hospitalized more often than bfed babies.

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Fri, 10-26-2007 - 4:43pm
Sure it is. Human babies were designed to consume human milk. Because a mother cannot or will not choose to feed her child human milk does not make formula the equivalent of BM. Just because a person doesn't can not or will not provide higher quality food to a child doesn't make a lesser quality food higher quality, period.
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