"I am sure you've thought of this but you're going to want to make sure that what is measured is 'exclusive breastmilk feeding FROM BIRTH'.  I have 'exclusive breastfeeding at discharge' used to obscure rates of formula use - baby had formula on day one but at discharge on day 2 baby was 'exclusively breastfeeding'."

Because if this isn't done, the data is meaningless, isn't it?  

This is a huge part of the 'controversy' about health outcomes, in my opinion, since so many babies leave the hospital 'exclusively' breastfeeding, but with compromised immune and digestive systems.

Formula is often given without parents' knowledge (let alone consent), so mothers may be telling researchers doing retrospective studies that their baby never had formula, when in fact he/she did.

Ingrid
Canada

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