Haven't seen much discussion on this one.  Did anyone else find it
strange that the researchers compared babies fed their own mothers' milk
against babies fed banked breastmilk -- as if banked milk were a readily
available, practical option for large numbers of babies. "Long-term
studies are needed to investigate the effect of different types of
neonatal nutrition in children of diabetic mothers, the authors
conclude."   Well, we all know, barring a medical condition that
warrants a prescription for banked milk, what the option is.  Why wasn't
that part of the study?

Of course, the researchers were looking to see if somehow the chemistry
of the diabetic mother's own milk (rather than breastmilk in general)
somehow reinforced the metabolic issues she was already genetically
passing along.  The problem is that a studies like this gets passed
along by neighbors/relatives who just read the headlines as something
like "If you have gestational diabetes, you shouldn't breastfeed."

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