Well, my post is raising the possibility of the opposite: that breastfeeding might have little to no actual influence on future child success, except insofar as those who breastfeed might be otherwise likely or able to raise highly successful kids.
Yep-I just get tired of the militant breastfeeding moms, and they use these studies to hit people over the heads with proof.
I agree with your point, and was adding my small sphere of experience to it. My MIL looks down on those who don’t nurse their babies, yet her kids didn’t fare better than I who was raised “wrongly” according to her.
If I am going to use experience as evidence, I may as well go further. My kids were all breastfed yet so far, none of them has had the same level of academic success that I did-and they have my genes. Clearly, there are a huge variety of factors that influence the develop academic abilities.
Am I doing something wrong with my kids that they don’t score very high on standardized tests? Maybe, but it isn’t their diet.