I find it very interesting that this article has gotten so much press and is coming out at the same time as the US Surgeon General's Call to Action on Breastfeeding. The BMJ article has no new  information and is not even a study. Just a rehash of articles that are weaker than the ones they are criticising from WHO. Most of the BMJ articles are observational and do not clearly point to a need to change current recommendations. Then add on the new book that was just published titled: "Is Breast Best: Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood" by Joan B. Wolf just published in 2011 by the New York University Press. The conclusion of the book mentions the "Call to Action"  whose launch is scheduled for Thursday, January 20, as follows:

 


 "For the time being, the "Call to Action" to increase breastfeeding that the Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health were to issue in 2010, a project they defined as "an urgent public health priority," seems as least slightly overwrought. In the overshelming majority of cases, either breastfeeding or formula feeding is a healthy option."  

 


 One wonders about the cluster of bad press for breastfeeding that just happens to being coming out at the same time!!!



Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
Weston, MA








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