Since breastfeed babies eat more often
than formula feed babies, nursing women are falsely told that their babies are hungry — lacking the nutrition of formula.
Actually, studies have shown that breastfed infants have more acceptance of new foods during solid food introduction (around 4 - 6 months)
than formula fed infants.
The study concluded that breastfed babies and children score about 3 points higher on standard IQ
tests than formula fed babies.
Since breastfed babies are statistically
healthier than their formula fed peers, the parents of breastfed babies spend less time out of work taking care of sick children.
Some moms find breastfeeding easier and
quicker than formula feeding — it needs no preparation and you don't run out of breast milk in the middle of the night.
The iron in breast milk is more easily absorbed than iron in formula so a breastfed baby will actually get more
iron than a formula fed baby.
There is however also evidence to suggest that overall the length of wakings is less for breastfed infants which may actually lead to breastfeeding mothers getting * more * sleep
than their formula feeding counterparts.
The willingness of the jury to assign the blame of an infant's death to breast milk without forensic evidence makes breastfeeding mothers far more vulnerable to prosecution
than formula feeding mothers if, for example, their baby dies of SIDS.
Healthy breastfed infants typically put on weight more
slowly than formula fed infants in the first year of life.4 - 5 Formula fed infants gain weight more rapidly after about 3 months of age.
And since there are plenty of risks in not breastfeeding the question essentially boils down to whether the addition of a small amount of medication to the mother's milk makes breastfeeding more
hazardous than formula feeding.
After adjustment for 15 appropriate key factors (including maternal age, education, race, ethnicity, SES, family size and childhood experiences), breastfeeding was associated with significantly higher scores for cognitive
development than formula feeding.
But even if it can be proven that breastfeeding moms earning trajectories are someone
lower than formula feeding moms, I think we need to consider more than just earnings into the economic cost / benefit analysis.
Also, a baby breastfed by a mother with uncontrolled / not well controlled asthma has a much greater risk of developing
asthma than a formula fed baby.
Counteracting the message that breastfeeding is cheaper
than formula feeding for privileged women is useful and I support it.
Breastfed babies tend to have more
liquid than formula fed babies but both will typically appear mustard like with seeds or curds.
We are here to tell you that not only is breastfeeding
EASIER than formula feeding, but there are numerous benefits for both you and your baby.
The researchers say regarding the importance of breastfeeding for infants that the breastfed babies have 50 % less chances of
SIDS than their formula fed counterparts.
Breastfed babies sometimes gain weight slightly
slower than formula fed babies, so when your child is checked out at the pediatrician, make sure to tell the doctor what feeding method you're using so the baby's growth can be assessed accurately.
But there is also a wealth of clinical data showing that, even in affluent societies, breastfed babies, and their mothers incidentally, are much better
off than formula fed babies.
Almost without exception, studies on formula feeding, breastfeeding, and sleep find that breastfed babies wake up more often
than formula fed ones at night, and breastfeeding mothers therefore get LESS uninterrupted nighttime sleep.
They had just been altered to include «formula or breast milk» at the «appropriate» feeding times, but breastfeeding is in fact
different than formula feeding, and those schedules aren't always the best for the breastfed baby.
Not only does breastmilk tailor itself to even premature babies (including making lots of extra phosphorus), but studies show that while special - formula - fed preemies may gain weight more quickly, that breastfed preemies do better in physical, cognitive and motor skills and are released from the NICU an average of two weeks
sooner than formula fed counterparts, and escape the risk of deadly necrotizing enterocolitis as preemies, whereas that risk continues for formula - fed infants.