Baby: "It can't hurt, can it?"
Milk does a body good.
Darn....but I keep trying....
Baby: "It can't hurt, can it?"
I guess it's not good enough that breast feeding has worked for thousands of years.
No offense intended to all of those wonderful mothers that choose not to breast feed for any reason. You probably know better than me, I just a hard headed guy.
This doesn't really surprise me. Though I breastfed all of my children I have always believed that studies of intelligence, behavior etc. are not controlled enough for socioeconomic factors-they can't be, let's face it, crack babies aren't breastfed. That's the extreme I realize, but the point is it's very hard to attribute intellience to one factor or another when so many factors are in play.
There are however medical benfits to breastfeeding in terms of fewer illnesses, infections etc. that I do not believe can be attributed solely to environment. At the very least premature babies who are fed breastmilk fare better than those who aren't, I would tend to think this is too early for socioeconomic factors to come into play. There must be some physiological benefit to feeding children the way nature intended.
Breastfeeding is at the least easier on the babies digestive tract.
It's far more convenient that carrying around bottles and getting up in the middle of the night to heat up foul smelling formula just to have the baby throw it up all over the place.
It's lots cheaper, too.
I nursed all three of mine and none of them have the food allergies that both my husband and I have. Both of us were raised on the *better living through chemistry* philosophy; either formula or Pet Evaporated Milk mixed with water.
I simply don't understand how anyone could think anything is better than, or even equal to, mother's milk. It's designed to provide the perfect nutrition for the baby of any species
Um. Because it is?
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Breastfeeding ping!
I don't know about milk but the container can sure make some folks do some really stupid things.
Damn - Guess I can stop now.
More liberal socialist bunk.
Not only does it boost IQ, it boosts the immune system, and never fails to boost the libidinal system.
Female Breasts are the best thing that has ever happened to the human race. Evolution has proven that to be true.
Who cares... I love it very much...
My older brother was fed formula, and I was breastfed. He was a fat little chunk of a kid, even though my mother didn't feed us junk food, but I never had any weight problems in my life until I hit my 30's. Also, although I developed nasty allergies later on, I was allergy-free and quite healthy until I was about six.
As for the intelligence thing ... I will say that I did much better in school than my brother. He had problems learning to read, whereas I took to it like a duck to water. OTOH, I had a great old-style teacher who taught us phonics, but he had a teacher who taught that asinine "see and say" method (i.e., learning words by rote rather than breaking down their components and sounding them out).
If God had wanted women to breast feed, He would have given them breasts.
Painting the child's room in bright colors, particularly a lot of orange, allegedly improves IQ.