Heather wrote: 

'In addition, the control group (see my post earlier this week) were 
permitted *uncontrolled* amounts of suppment and had up to almost 
four times of it. That's not a control, that's *another* 
intervention.'

That wasn't an intervention; it was one of the outcomes. This figure came from the first assessment, at one week after birth. One of the outcomes assessed at that time was the total amount of formula the baby had had during that week - which would have included all formula that the mother decided to give after discharge. I can't see anything that says that any of those supplements took place in the hospital. (In other words, what this seems to indicate is that the mothers who were kept strictly to EBF while in the hospital ended up giving quite a bit *more* formula once they got home, and their babies ended up having more formula overall than the ones who were deliberately given early limited supplements in the hospital.)


Best wishes,

Dr Sarah Vaughan
MBChB MRCGP

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