Thoughts about this??

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Thoughts about this??
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Tue, 03-27-2007 - 11:53am

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Registered: 07-26-2006
Sat, 03-31-2007 - 8:54pm
Well I stand corrected. I thought you said you were done?


Edited 3/31/2007 8:59 pm ET by mbanc17
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Sat, 03-31-2007 - 8:56pm

PLEASE LINK ME to where I said ANYTHING about not benefitting. Anything at all. Post number will work as well. Show me where I said ANYTHING that resembles this statement:

Just because you didn't want your children to benefit from these things doesn't mean they didn't.

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Registered: 07-26-2006
Sat, 03-31-2007 - 9:07pm

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Why does a mother nurse? Does she not nurse her child to feed it? If we didnt have milk in our breasts would we still nurse? I dont think so. So how is breastfeeding not about nutrition? Again where did I say BF is solely for nutrition?

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I will explain this one more time. When my children were hungry they nursed. When they werent hungry I didnt nurse.

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I think you are trying your best to put words in my mouth. Not working well though. Like I said...I never once nursed my child if he/she wasnt hungry. If they were hungry I did nurse. I didnt take the route that if they cried I popped the boob in their mouth to get them to quiet. No thanks.

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Are you saying that nursing isnt for nutrition? What exactly is that milk that comes out for then?

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Sat, 03-31-2007 - 9:10pm

I didnt say you made it up. However I dont think there is any way of knowing that BF babies have a higher IQ than babies that were formula fed. Children are all different. There could have been dozens of factors for this IQ difference.

Here is what I found. LOL!

Babies who are breast-fed score higher on intelligence tests than formula-fed babies, regardless of their mother's IQ, education and other socioeconomic factors, according to a major new study released yesterday.

Breast-fed infants tested 5.3 IQ points higher on average, according to the study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

After 15 factors such as maternal smoking and education, birth weight, birth order and family income were weighed and subtracted, the researchers still found that breast-fed babies tested 3.1 IQ points higher than formula-fed babies.

The analysis, which included more than 7,000 children in 11 studies, also found that babies breast-fed eight weeks or less showed little of the reported positive cognitive effects of breast-feeding. For those breast-feeding more than eight weeks, the improvement increased until it reached a plateau at 20 weeks.




Edited 3/31/2007 9:13 pm ET by mbanc17
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Sat, 03-31-2007 - 9:10pm
You'd think the idea that "side benefits dont equal purpose" is rocket science!!!! Jeez!!

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Sat, 03-31-2007 - 9:16pm

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Nope.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/09/23/MN88893.DTL

Babies who are breast-fed score higher on intelligence tests than formula-fed babies, regardless of their mother's IQ, education and other socioeconomic factors, according to a major new study released yesterday.

Breast-fed infants tested 5.3 IQ points higher on average, according to the study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

After 15 factors such as maternal smoking and education, birth weight, birth order and family income were weighed and subtracted, the researchers still found that breast-fed babies tested 3.1 IQ points higher than formula-fed babies.

The analysis, which included more than 7,000 children in 11 studies, also found that babies breast-fed eight weeks or less showed little of the reported positive cognitive effects of breast-feeding. For those breast-feeding more than eight weeks, the improvement increased until it reached a plateau at 20 weeks.

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Sat, 03-31-2007 - 9:27pm

My DH doesn't have fits about anything. I'm still nursing my 21 month old and DH really doesn't care one bit. One less kid that he has to put to bed, LOL.

Amy

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Sat, 03-31-2007 - 9:35pm

Wow that darn clock never worked for my babies and still doesn't work sometimes for me. Sometimes I'm hungry and that clock doesn't say noon yet. I can't imagine not feeding my hungry baby just because the clock didn't say it was time.

Amy

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Sat, 03-31-2007 - 9:40pm

The word CAN was absent from your OP on the subject.

I have never heard oxytocin referred to as the cuddle hormone. Did you make that up?

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Registered: 03-12-2005
Sat, 03-31-2007 - 9:44pm
Cuddle hormone isn't a descriptive that I've ever read referencing oxytocin. How does providing a link make that a correct reference when the link doesn't talk about oxytocin as the cuddle hormone(at least not that I saw).

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