Well, as if the news isn’t full of depressing new things, news aggregators are recycling old things.
Shanna directed me to this article, about how Tel Aviv University researchers are upending the conventional wisdom of past millenia and recommending that babies be introduced to milk proteins ASAP. (I personally would vote for a hazelnut latte upon emerging from the womb; warm those puppies up! Mom can eat the biscotti.)
This sounded familiar to me, and indeed, A Mother in Israel had offered a summary/translation/rebuttal of this study over a month ago.
Among other issues: researchers relied on moms of newborns to self-report (could you have done this, immediately post-partum?); did not toss out the numbers from babies who received formula in the hospital; and used funding from the Israeli Milk Council. No, whatever, I’m sure it DID NOT CHANGE ANYTHING AT ALL.
In sum: Don’t put away your breasts just yet. They’re still good. (Don’t get scared away by the “newest” research. Go with your gut.)
Um yeah…. I don’t think that study was biased…not at all….
Why would anything be the same or better than what we were given by the Creator to feed our babies? I’m with you- don’t put away your breasts just yet.