Hark! The most blatantly misinterpreted formula feeding study, ever!
If you were anywhere near a newspaper or Twitter in the past 2 weeks, I’m sure you heard about The Study. You know, the one that showed how formula feeding “causes” obesity? Or, as the UK’s Guardian...
View ArticleQ&A with Joan Wolf, author of “Is Breast Best?”
For those of you who visit the FFF Facebook page, you may have seen a few of us discussing a new book called Is Breast Best? Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood...
View ArticleThe 2-Hour Rule: Is a bottle safe when it’s been left out too long?
On a message board I frequent, a mother recently asked how many of us obey the “don’t feed formula left out over 2 hours” rule. While most people responded that they did abide by this recommendation, a...
View ArticleDirty Milk
FFF Sarah, who is currently trying to induce lactation for her upcoming adoption, emailed me this afternoon with an interesting question: So, I’m pumping all of this crap into my body in an attempt to...
View ArticleWTF, AAP? The problem with the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newest...
“Breastfeeding and human milk are the normative standards for infant feeding and nutrition. Given the documented short- and long-term medical and neurodevelopmental advantages of breastfeeding, infant...
View ArticleMammary Mania: Podcast approaches lactation science as the science it should be
I just listened to a podcast of a fascinating interview about breastmilk, courtesy of Skeptically Speaking. Interviewer Desiree Schell spoke with Dr. Katie Hinde, an Assistant Professor of Human...
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Pyloric stenosis and bottle feeding: Vomiting up some logic
A study published in Pediatrics is claiming that bottle feeding might be a risk factor for pyloric stenosis (a condition in which the pyloric muscle malfunctions and impedes food (liquid) from going...
View ArticleA couples therapy session for Science and fed-up parents
You know how I’m always harping on and on about how we could be doing studies that actually help us protect infant health, rather than guilt-tripping mothers? My fairy godmother must’ve been listening,...
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The two headed chimera of infant feeding studies
It’s been a crazy week here, and I was really hoping to pull some pithy, short post out of the exhausted recesses of my brain. So when a study came across the wire touting extended formula feeding as a...
View ArticleBreastfeeding might not protect kids from obesity. So what?
The past few days have produced a flurry of articles on how breastfeeding may not protect against obesity. You’d think I’d be shouting an obnoxiously loud DUH or TOLD YOU SO. Instead, I want to poke my...
View ArticleBad medicine: Why the AAP’s new statement on breastfeeding & medication is...
“The benefits of breastfeeding outweigh the risk of exposure to most therapeutic agents via human milk. Although most drugs and therapeutic agents do not pose a risk to the mother or nursing infant,...
View ArticleThe biggest problem with the breastfeeding discourse has nothing to do with...
Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes, it’s not. As any journalist, blogger, or parenting-forum moderator can attest, merely mentioning the words “breastfeeding” or “formula feeding” will...
View ArticleIs donor milk dangerous? Not as dangerous as hypocrisy.
Those of you who have been reading this blog long enough are probably well aware that I hate hypocrisy. I mean, I hate it. I hate it in politics, I hate it in religion, I hate it in the spats I have...
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Win-win or lose-lose: Study suggests breast may not “beat” bottle in multiple...
Every morning, I receive Google alerts for several terms: breastfeeding, formula feeding, infant formula, breastmilk, etc. And every morning, I brace myself, waiting for the inevitable headline that...
View ArticleAll new parents deserve a place at the consumer protection table, not just...
Public Citizen is known for its advocacy for ordinary citizens who have been harmed by large entities–and rightly so. Much good has been done by this organization in the name of everyday citizens who...
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