Here is the Article but you need either a subscription to AOL or the magazine to view it. In the meantime, here is the blurb on breastfeeding:
20 rules to break nowDon't drink red wine with fish.... Don't read in dim light... Change the oil in your car every 3,000 miles.... Anybody know who makes these rules? Or-even more mysterious-why we blindly follow them? Here, 20 examples of what "they" say-ironclad conventional wisdom whose time has come and gone. Now, go ahead and
leave that laundry in the machine overnight...don't breast-feed your child?
most likely: "In the long run, nothing," says Boris Petrikovsky, chairman of the department of obstetrics-gynecology at Nassau University Medical Center, in East Meadow, New York. When you're bottle-feeding, you know exactly how much food the baby is eating, and Mom may be less tired because Dad has no excuse to sleep through 3 a.m. feedings. "There is also absolutely no conclusive data on breast milk's effects on brain development," adds Petrikovsky.
worst case: "The biggest downside of not breast-feeding is that the mother misses out on some of the bonding," says Petrikovsky. And since breast milk is specially designed to meet the nutritional needs of infants and contains antibodies that help protect them from a variety of illnesses, "babies who are breast-fed are more likely to have a stronger immune system and be sick less than formula-fed infants."
One, I cannot add a thing to Sparki's blog except this doctor is a dork and why do they not enlist the opinion of a pediatric nutrionist as opposed to an OB/Gyn? Maybe I will go ask a dermatologist how best to treat Gorbulas' asthma next week.
