Hi Naomi,I haven't read the paper from Yale, however I just wanted to
say that that with some colleagues I have written a paper (currently
under review) that addresses the questions you asked and other issues
and *hopefully* presents a blueprint for advocates of women's equality
and breastfeeding to use in their advocacy with governments. I will
share when it is published.Karleen GribbleAustralia

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From: Naomi Bar-Yam 
Subject: Fwd: Cost of breastfeeding (Yale Study)

Hi Donna,
Do you have the article itself? It is really hard to know from the
Yale newsletter write up what the article actually measures. You are
asking important questions, I just don’t know if they are considered
in the article.
1. Indeed, moms do multi task when they are breastfeeding. How is that
measured in economic models?
2. Formula feeding also takes time and resources. I don’t know if
this article is an economic comparison, or an analysis of
breastfeeding alone.
3. Babies fed formula can be prepared and fed by others. I don’t
know how that is accounted for in the article.
4. You are right that pregnancy and maternity leave impact career
advancement, independent of breastfeeding. I’m sure there are
analyses of how much breastfeeding alone impacts these things, but I
am not familiar with them

Economic models are imperfect, subject to many constraints that do not
always reflect “real life.” We try to learn from them anyway and
apply them as we can, keeping in mind that they models and not life.

I hope that the message taken from this research is policies should
reflect the economic value of breastfeeding.

Naomi


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