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A more insightful study would look at a much larger sample of perhaps 1,000
subjects. The subjects would be neonates in the immediate newborn period
prior to the first nourishment consumed by breastfed and artificially-fed
newborns. (I would not want to be the researcher on this one, however,
since I am not interested in delaying the first feed at the breast in order
to obtain a blood sample from the infant, even though this blood draw/heel
stick would be only seconds long.)
The focus would be on determining what the newborn was exposed to as an
embryo and then as a fetus. I do not know of a safe, noninvasive way to
determine such information during the embryonic or fetal periods of
development.
Another study could use a similarly large sample to compare levels of toxin
(s) among breastfed and artificially-fed infants. The query would be, "Do
breastfed infants have higher levels of 'named toxin' than artificially-fed
infants?" My hypothesis would be that breastfed infants do not have higher
levels of toxins that artificially-fed infants, but we will not know that
until solid research tells us that.
Have there been any such studies?
Debra Swank, RN BSN IBCLC
Winchester, Virginia USA
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