Sure, there's never going to be that controlled an experiment
but that's the same for many, many things and I think the evidence that is coming out of the studies is indicative of breastfeeding being beneficial. Inferences can be drawn. Scientists aren't always working with cut-and-dried binary results. And fanatics are fanatics - I don't really care how other people feed their child; I care how I feed mine. I wouldn't get worked up over formula feeding but I did raise an eyebrow at the women I saw pouring coke into her child's sippy cup last week.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 29 May 2012, 10:56, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

Oh, I know
but some things are easier to isolate than others, and this is one of the harder ones.

It's about nothing other than personal choice, of course. I just find it interesting the totally out-of-proportion response it generates from some sectors, tbh, and that some people think they have the right to preach about something they don't have any evidence to back up.

Although I think you'd have been justified in fucking cokemum's shit RIGHT up.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 29 May 2012, 11:06, Reply)