Child birth classes, lactation consultants, books, and websites will teach you almost everything you need to
know about exclusive breastfeeding, but there are very few resources shouting the benefits of supplementing with formula.
Not exact matches
So
no matter what you're planning for your birth and
breastfeeding, arm yourself with knowledge
about all the other possibilities, like how to have a successful
breastfeeding relationship after a c - section,
exclusive pumping, tongue tie / latch issues, boosting milk supply, and even formula feeding.
I
knew nothing
about exclusive pumping and I wonder how many mum's who had
breastfeeding issues switched to formula because they didn't
know pumping was an option.
A couple things
about this study are worth mentioning: a) they removed cases in which symptoms of cancer occurred in the first nine months or the child died in the first year, which may be where the effects of
breastfeeding are strongest (though I certainly don't
know this for a fact, but it is reasonable); and b) they did not examine
exclusive breastfeeding, but rather any
breastfeeding (this is important as the effects of
breastfeeding are
known to be strongest when
breastfeeding is
exclusive and it is also difficult to ascertain how little or how much women were
breastfeeding when any
breastfeeding is the variable of interest).