What SHOULD go into the decision (m)

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Tue, 01-01-2008 - 6:33pm

OK, I don't think anyone really denies that it is ultimately every mom's decision.

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Wed, 01-16-2008 - 11:55am

Adrienne, just wanted to say that you are a great debater! You throw right back at us the same stuff we tell others (please reference post number) etc. ;-)

And you don't seem to truely get your feathers ruffled and storm off in a huff.

That said...*sticks out tongue and says you're wrong neener neener neener*. ;-)

LOL (JK!!)





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Wed, 01-16-2008 - 12:07pm

YES at least some of the studies did. I'm not sure for *all* of the studies.

They were a) separated into groups of higher educated parents, lower educated parents, smokers/non-smokers, etc. AND the babies in at *least* one, perhaps more than that, study, were ALL preemies who were tube-fed. In that study, you can't say it was because the BFing moms were holding the babies and giving them more attention while the FFing moms were bottle propping: they were all fed the same way, just with different substances.

There is one study that dates back to 1929 I believe, which is comparing kids fed mixes that were avail. back then, to kids who were BFed. That one, a lot of people dismiss b/c the mixes that were around then are nothing like today's mixes of formula. I do admit that is true BUT the interesting thing to note with the study from 1929 is that back then, it was the poor women who BFed and the rich who could afford formula. Despite growing up in poor less educated families, the BFed babies still did better IQ-wise. There might be a lot less discrepency now with the more modern mixes, if you compared poor uneducated BFing moms to rich affluent Doctorate-degree-equipped moms, not sure.





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Wed, 01-16-2008 - 12:11pm

I'm pretty sure it was posted in the news section (possibly by me, maybe by Catherine...) a while back. Maybe as far back as august?





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Wed, 01-16-2008 - 12:17pm
I believe that at least the initial studies on IQ, the babies were not actually breastfed, but were premies taking breast milk by bottle. I`ll see if I can find any of them.



~*~ Catherine, mom to three grown men - Jason, Michael & Joshua and Granma to Christopher & Leia.


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Wed, 01-16-2008 - 1:22pm

This is contradictory.

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Wed, 01-16-2008 - 1:44pm

It's funny because no matter which way you slice it, formual FEEDING is the problem.

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Wed, 01-16-2008 - 3:21pm

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Good point, Nisu :)

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Wed, 01-16-2008 - 3:28pm

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Wed, 01-16-2008 - 3:36pm

Wow, talk about selective reading!

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