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Message from discussion Breast is best, was Re: Internet survey - should mothers breastfeed in public?

Naomi Lynne Pardue

More options May 22 2000, 5:00 pm

Newsgroups: alt.parenting.solutions, alt.support.breastfeeding, misc.kids.breastfeeding

From: Naomi Lynne Pardue <npar...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu>

Date: 2000/05/22

Subject: Re: Breast is best, was Re: Internet survey - should mothers breastfeed in public?

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In misc.kids.breastfeeding image <imaginat...@spamno.com> wrote:

> "Naomi Lynne Pardue" <npar...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
> news:8f7e2o$dc0$1@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu...
>> > Of course not. Nevertheless, I'm still waiting to find out how my using
>> > formula burdened the tax system and/or the health care system.

>> Your child has really NEVER been sick in his/her entire life? You are
>> certain that your child will never BE sick in his/her entire life?

> I am not following your bf child is never sick?

Nope. Didn't say that. Statistically, formula fed babies are sick more
than breastfed babies. Statisically insurance companies spend more for
the health care of formula fed babies than they do for the care of
breastfed babies. So, unless a given FF baby is NEVER sick, and NEVER
needs to see a doctor, you cannot be sure that that particular illness
would not have occured had the baby been breastfed.

>> Formula also destroys quality of life. Formula also kills. There are
>> times when it is necessary (as starvation would destroy quality of life
>> or kill with even more certainty), but it is still a product that kills
>> people.

> You shouldn't have to stretch the truth!
> Formula does not kill! Are you actually hearing (or seeing) what you have
> said, it makes no sense.

Formula RARELY kills a baby directly. But formula (or, more specifically,
the lack of breastmilk) leads to more illnesses. Some of those sick babies
die.
Not riding in a carseat does not kill babies. Babies die when they are
thrown through the windshield. So does this mean that carseats don't save
lives?

>> And I can't see attempting rational discussion with someone who can't
>> understand the concept of 'analogy.'
> You have to realize the smoking and formula are not "analgous". It is just
> stupid to consider it as such.

In some ways they are. In some ways they are not.

Naomi

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