"Proud Formula Feeder"?

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"Proud Formula Feeder"?
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Thu, 12-14-2006 - 8:27pm

In my playgroup, I've noticed some members have a blinkie I haven't seen before: "Proud Formula Feeder". In the past, I've seen the "Formula Feeding Mom" and "It's formula, not rat poison", but this new one struck me as odd. I can understand simply stating that you formula feed or saying that formula isn't rat poison (because it isn't), but I've been trying to figure out just why someone would be "proud" to FF.

While I don't think that women should necessarily feel guilty about not BF, I don't get what about FF there is to be proud about. Most (or maybe even all) of the women with said blinkie acknowledge that breastmilk is better, so why would they be proud to feed their babies something they know is substandard, even if they couldn't BF and FF was their only choice? What do you ladies think? Is/should there be such a thing as FF pride?

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Registered: 11-10-2005
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 2:40pm

Her pediatrician was wrong.

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Registered: 12-30-2006
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 2:43pm

Harvard and Yale Medical Journals

BF 4 children

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Registered: 12-30-2006
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 2:45pm
How can what you eat not make a difference? Can you answer that?
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Registered: 04-05-2003
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 3:06pm

Why don't you check with the manufacturer?

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Registered: 11-17-2006
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 3:12pm


Formula might just have save half these babies! Watch CNN and learn.

True, IF the formula were free -until the baby started solids, not just 'till the breastmilk dried up- instead of taking money needed to feed the already-weaned, AND IF there were *safe* water available to mix formula and/or wash bottles.

Otherwise, the original source is still far superior.

ilve2read

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Registered: 04-05-2003
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 3:17pm

Oh, and I can't wait to read all your links that tell me how a less than perfect diet makes bad bm!

Debbie

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Registered: 06-02-2003
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 4:26pm

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Care to provide a source for this information?

<<< If a mother’s breast milk is deficient in any vitamins or minerals, the physician should recommend dietary supplements for the baby. >>>

And how would they arrive at this determination? Exactly how would mom's milk be tested?

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How can formula have all the vitamins and minerals necessary when it only contains 30 ingredients vs the 300 or so known to be in breastmilk?

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Care to provide documentation for this? Because everything I've read thus far shows quite the opposite to be true.

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Why do I need to follow a dr specified menu? Tell me, exactly how much education in both human lactation and nutrition have you received thus far in medical school? How much do you expect to receive before you are done?

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Care to provide any documentation to back this up as well?

I will be awaiting the documentation that I and I'm sure others have asked for. And no, your "credentials" don't mean squat to me in this type of setting. What I would like to see is documentation from PubMed etc to read for myself please. And if this is the kind of "education" in human lactation that is being handed out at medical school or pre-med it's no wonder the BFing rates are so dismal and no wonder I hear so much crap coming from drs. Frightening.

-jeanine

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Registered: 06-02-2003
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 4:29pm

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And what type of lactation education did these drs receive? Was an IBCLC consulted at all? If so what did she/he have to say?

-jeanine

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Registered: 06-02-2003
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 4:32pm

Actual links please, because I'm doing a search and not coming up with any medical journal from either Harvard or Yale. I wasn't aware that schools published their own medical journals. Are they peer reviewed?

-jeanine

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Registered: 06-02-2003
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 4:38pm

Make a difference how? In the quality of the milk? Perhaps you should check out this. See the bottom of the page for references to the studies read for the article.

http://www.kellymom.com/nutrition/milk/change-milkfat.html

-jeanine

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