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What are the side effects of babies who never receive mama’s breast milk?
My mom never breast fed me when I was an infant. She always give my milk powders. I’m 18 now, but I just wonder how did it affect me?
For those who gave Cupid thumbs-down, I want to hear reasons from you. Could it be something that she missed? Plz tell me, I wanna know.
“For those who gave Cupid thumbs-down, I want to hear reasons from you. Could it be something that she missed?”
re. “Formula is still just as nutritional.. it just lacks the cells and antibodies that are transferred through breastmilk” is a bit on the wishful-thinking side. It is not “just as nutritional[sic],” and lacks literally hundreds of the ingredients of breast milk.
Canadian breastfeeding authority Dr Jack Newman:
“Is formula almost the same as breastmilk?
No, and not by a long shot. Just because every few years the formula manufacturers add something to their formulas that we knew was in breastmilk for years, but the manufacturers denied were of any importance, doesn’t mean that the “new and improved” formula is just like breastmilk. In some cases, the formula is improved, but remember, they were telling us that the formula before the “new and improved” version was also “almost like breastmilk”. This is true, for example, of the long chained polyunsaturated fatty acids (DHA and AA) that are supposed to make your baby smarter (one company even calls their formula A+, but it deserves a C- at best). We’ve known how important these fats are for many years, but for many years (before they were added to formula, of course), the manufacturers, echoed by many health professionals, just kept saying that it didn’t matter, and that there was no proof that these fats were of any importance at all (this is still in the Canadian Paediatric Society’s 1995 statement on the nutrient needs of premature babies). This cycle of “our milk is just like breastmilk” followed by “we have now added x to our milk so that it is even more like breastmilk” has been going on since the 19th century.
The truth of the matter is this:
Just adding something to formula, even if it is in the same amounts as in breastmilk, does not mean that the baby will get the amount or the best sort he needs of this particular something. The example of iron helps us understand this. Breastmilk contains enough iron (with the stores the baby has during pregnancy), to keep the baby iron sufficient for at least 6 months. To maintain iron sufficiency in formula fed babies, formula needs to contain at least 6 times more iron than breastmilk, just because iron does not get absorbed from the baby’s gut as well from formula as it does from breastmilk. There are still hundreds of components of breastmilk that are still not added to formulas.
Breastmilk varies in what it contains, from morning to evening, from day to day, from beginning of the feeding to the end, from day 1 to day 4 to day 10 to day 100, so there is no way we can know what breastmilk really contains. This means that there is no way to duplicate breastmilk because there is no such thing as a standard breastmilk. In fact, since every woman produces somewhat different breastmilk, the notion of a standard breastmilk becomes an absurdity. Breastmilk is a living, dynamic fluid. Formula is a chemical soup.”
http://www.drjacknewman.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=85
And to say that formula and breastmilk share certain ingredients (such as DHA) is _somewhat_ misleading. The iron added to formula is poorly absorbed, and the DHA does not function in formula as it does in breastmilk.
More reading: http://www.kellymom.com/nutrition/milk/DHA-formula-comments.html
edit: “Can someone link me to the higher increase in SIDS risk for formula fed babies…”
“A reduced risk for SIDS in breastfed infants persisted during the first 6 months after controlling for confounding demographic, maternal and infant factors. Infants exclusively breastfed ‘at discharge from the obstetric hospital’ (odds ratio [OR]=0.52, 95% confidence interval (CI):0.35–0.71) and during the last 2 days (OR=0.65, 95% Cl:0.46–0.91) had a significantly lower risk of SIDS than infants not breastfed after con trolling for potential confounders. We have shown a substantial association of breastfeeding with a lowered risk for SIDS. ”
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/5/885
“Breast feeding is known to protect an infant against gastrointestinal pathogens and epidemiological studies indicate that compared to breast fed infants, formula fed infants are at a greater risk of dying from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). ”
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1574-695X.1999.tb01340.x
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