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Breast Milk May Not Be Enough (Vitamin D)

[Scotswife]

I was only successful in breast-feeding one of my 6 children.
A breast specialist has confirmed that I have an inflammatory problem that prevents me from comfortably feeding my children this way. The result is that I usually could not handle it past 1 week and would start bottle feeding.

There was no difference in the intelligence or health between my breast fed baby and the others.

[msnimje]

This is why our grandmothers took babies out for a 30 minute afternoon "airing."

[arkham]

My wife did not breast feed my firstborn. She could not get into a rhythm enough to get our baby fed and the baby (born at 8 months gestation) was loosing weight too fast for comfort, so we switched to formula.

Our second child was breastfed exclusively.

Of first child was generally ill less often through babyhood and later. She is also whip smart. Neither has allergies that we know of.

While I am sure there are real benefits to breastfeeding, I suspect that they are somewhat overblown by the media and some breastfeeding fanatics (and if you've had a child in the last 15 years, you probably know who I mean).

It seems like most studies these days which causatively link one trait with another are usually refuted in a later study which shows both traits to be related to other causes.