[Dante3]

Just go on google or talk to a physician and you will find plenty of cases where bottle feeding is preferable to breast feeding: toxic chemicals found in breast milk - and there are many of those; the baby overeats and develops fat cells; the baby does not get enough food (because of some muscular condition as happened with some people in our neighborhood), etc.

Then there are cases where the mother has to work or is ill or the baby is adopted.

[Calpernia]

LOL!

That was a study bought and paid for by the financial interests of a baby formula company.

Thank you for pimping for them further.

[after dark]

One of my babies had to stay in the hospital after birth. I had to resort to using a pump.Some of the more pig headed nurses tried to pressure me into using formula.To this day their ignorance astounds me.My son and I were fortunate.I was able to keep my milk up.He was able breast feed after being taught to use a bottle.Publicly bullying breast feeding mothers must stop.

[22cal]

 

>>Name any minuses to successful breastfeeding to the baby. We are not discussing inconvenience to adult parents here. Be sure to cite your sources.<<

Your response was not mainly to the point. Note the word "successful".

In large part, physicians are not trained in the advantages or techniques of breastfeeding. So I woudn't use most of them as sources. Medical websites are generally not the best sources either. The fact that physicians are ill-informed about breastfeeding adds to unsuccessful breastfeeding statistics. A lot of what you find on such sites is geared to medical intervention in a natural process.

Toxicity is often overstated, but in cases of real danger, then of course artificial milk should be substituted.

In actual fact, breast milk protects from most illness as it contains immune factors. For example if the mother is getting a cold, before she feels symptoms, the baby is getting immune factors for that specific virus. The baby will probably avoid the cold or get a milder case.

Just in the last two years two vital substances were added to artificial formula. No physician knew about these quantities that were recently found in breast milk. Natural milk is still being investigated and all the myriad advantages are not catalogued. Some of them are at:

https://my.inova.com/public/healthresearch/content_display_full.cfm?DOC_ID=P06824

http://www.storknet.com/cubbies/breast/newmanprotects.htm

This one also lists toxic or inadequate formulas over two decades:

http://www.parentingweb.com/lounge/whybf.htm

It is unfortunate that your neighbors were unsuccessful. All of us have positive and negative anecdotes to relate. It remains to be seen if said 'muscular' condition meant breastfeeding had to stop. Some reasons for low milk production are poor diet, not enough nursing time, poor technique in nursing, social pressure, and not enough body fat to produce adequate milk.