Jon,
I think this thought has been posted before, but I really find it
helpful in explaining the truth about the relationship of different
formulas to breastmilk.

Yes, the addition of (whatever new discovery) does make that formula
closer to breastmilk....but only to the same extent that Davenport
is closer to Honolulu than Bettendorf is. (For those not familiar
with Iowa geography, you might say..like Newark is closer than New
York City or whatever 2 cities close together are familiar to your
hearer.)
I think this comparison really points out that even when they do add
something "new" to formula it is still so far from
breastmilk/breastfeeding that it in no way negates the importance of
breastfeeding.
  To play with the analogy even further-even if they are able to
keep inching the formula closer, there is still the "ocean" to
cross.  That ocean is all the aspects of breastfeeding like physical
contact etc. that will never be reproduced.  (See Diane Weissinger's
"It's Not About the Milk".

Winnie Mading RNC, IBCLC, MOM

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