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Thumbs up for Xena.

Your ignorance makes me sad...

Breastmilk develops your brain to it's full potential, so it does actually make a difference to IQ, that's not to say there aren't stupid breastfed kids and very smart formula fed children, it's just fact. There are huge differences between formula and breastmilk, formula cannot develop a strong stomach lining as well as breastmilk can, which can cause health problems, formula doesn't change to meet your babies current needs at the touch of lips to a bottle like breast does. Formula is a fantastic invention but it's still not in any way a replication of breastmilk, it simply cannot replicate it and that's not a problem as long as formula grows healthy babies. It doesn't change the facts on breastfeeding there's no need to get defensive about them because you just look butthurt and uneducated.

I will say one thing, I was never breastfed. I had extreme allergies as a kid until around the time I hit puberty, but now, I rarely have allergic reactions to anything and at most I might get sick once a year even when mixed with contagious people. I believe my immune system has been boosted by constantly having to fight off various things when I was younger. Currently working on a second college degree with a 3.0 GPA so not all formula fed infants turn out dumb. There is a balance between nature and nurture. Environmental factors, socioeconomic factors, food, drinks, it all plays a part in the end result. You can say that breast milk is healthier than formula, but not that it makes babies smarter

As someone in the medical field, I assure you the latest and most reputable research has shown extreme benefits from breastfeeding. Children who are breastfed tend to have higher IQs, have less allergies, are more socially adept (perhaps involving the role of oxytocin which has been implicated as deficient in autism spectrum disorders) and develop less infections. There is debate whether breastfeeding can help prevent certain cancers as well. As for the mothers, breastfeeding promotes bonding and is the number one best way to lost pregnancy weight.

Exactly! I'll never understand how drinking breast milk made for humans, by a human is disgusting and drinking breast milk for an animal from an animal is not.

Great comment!! It's so true that people are grossed by something that's sustained human life since the beginning of time but jump at the idea of milk from another species that essential depletes your body's calcium supply.

Almonds and coconuts have breasts? How did I never notice?