I'm trying to remember whether this was the one that had the anecdote of the pediatrician talking to a group of mothers and saying "if I can get out of bed at midnight for kids' medical emergencies, then you can get up in the middle of the night to breastfeed your own child." My reaction was "yeah, you're getting paid six figures to get up in the middle of the night for strangers' kids; if I decide I want to feed my kid formula so they sleep longer, that's my business".
The whole formula vs. breastmilk thing is yet another example of framing a "generally very good vs. generally extremely good" issue as "always horrible vs. always perfect". If formula were as terrible as these folks say, we'd have evidence in the epidemiology by now.
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Date: 2019-08-17 11:30 pm (UTC)The whole formula vs. breastmilk thing is yet another example of framing a "generally very good vs. generally extremely good" issue as "always horrible vs. always perfect". If formula were as terrible as these folks say, we'd have evidence in the epidemiology by now.