Other ways in which breastfeeding is best for mom include:

1) Mom's risk of breast cancer is reduced when she chooses to 
breastfeed.
2) Mom's risk of osteoporosis is reduced when she chooses to breastfeed.
3) Mom is more likely to lose those prepregnancy pounds faster when she 
breastfeeds.

Susan, you make some really good points.  I wanted to add my - albeit 
"stolen" - two cents.  Some weeks ago someone posted a link to an 
article - i honestly can't remember who posted the link or who wrote 
the article i'm about to refer to (if anyone does, please let me know.  
i think it was a Lactnetter, too).  In the article the author made some 
excellent points about how we word things.

She was saying that bf may indeed be best, but it's still normal.  and 
that by contrast formula - which is currently accepted as the norm - is 
less than normal.  So that when we re-word our benefits of 
breastfeeding to the hazards of formula feeding, the benefits above 
would read like this:

If you feed your baby formula:

1) mom's and baby girl's risk of breast cancer is *increased*
2) mom's risk of osteoporosis is increased
3) pregancy weight is more difficult to lose.

and the list goes on.  all that to say that after i read that article, 
i realised how right she was (so sorry author, please chime in and take 
your credit) and that if we put it like that - with bf being the 
standard for NORMAL results, then other methods pose hazards.

what do you think of that???

warmest regards,
cian sawyer, CLC

p.s. i'd really like to have that article back.  can anyone tell me how 
to find it, please?

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