x'd posts Preggers hide if you don't want to know, I'm leaving a space. Gaelic, your employer can't expect you to express in the toilet. That is not acceptable. They have to provide you with a clean comfortable place to express and a fridge.
Hi Gaelic,
I don't really want to link this tbh, I don't like stressing people, in theory the more she has and the longer for the higher the risks, there is a new way of making up formula that makes it a particular faff and risky if you do it the old way.
As for how long before she can go without you during the day, I would say as a generalisation, several months at least. My ds is 14 months and has just dropped a feed so he is now morning and night and lunchtime. They are all different tho.
Heres an exerpt:
In a study that analyzed hospitalization patterns for a homogeneous, middle-class, white American population, bottle-fed infants were fourteen times more likely to be hospitalized than breastfed infants." Another researcher concluded that, for every every 1000 bottlefed infants, 77 hospital admissions would result. The comparable figure for breastfed infants was determined to be five hospital admissions (Salisbury L, Blackwell AG: Petition to Alleviate Domestic Infant Formula Misuse and Provide An Informed Infant Feeding Choice. San Francisco:Public Advocates, Inc., 1981, p. 45).
According to Diane Weissinger, International Board Certified Lactation
Consultant and nationally-known speaker on the topic of infant nutrition, "The only advantage that American women who formula-feed tend to have over third world women is better sanitation and medical care -- and that's far from a culture-wide advantage. That in no way alters the long list of ailments to which their bottlefed babies are prone."
The Texas Department of Health's Bureau of Nutrition Services says that
artificially-fed infants in the United States are three to four times more likely to suffer from diarrheal diseases (the number-one killer of
infants worldwide), four times more likely to suffer from meningitis, and
have an eighty percent increase in the risk of lower respiratory infections.
Marsha Walker, in her article, "A Fresh Look at The Risks of Artificial Feeding" published in the Journal of Human Lactation, refers
to research demonstrating that artificially-fed babies see their risk for
moderate to severe rotavirus gastroenteritis increase by five-fold. "Formula feeding is consistently associated with immune system disorders," she states. "Formula feeding accelerates the development of celiac disease, is a risk factor for Crohn's Disease and ulcerative colitis in adulthood, accounts for two to twenty-six percent of childhood-onset insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (and) imposes a five to eight fold risk of developing lymphomas (cancer) in children under fifteen if they were formula-fed."
One of the most startling discoveries concerning artificial feeding is that it appears to increase an infant's risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review reported in 1996 that lack of breastfeeding (artificial feeding), along with exposure to tobacco smoke and a prone sleeping position, is now recognized as one of the only known modifiable risk factors for SIDS. (MMWR 45 (RR-10);1-6).
Not surprising, in light of health risks associated with formula, is the 1995 study by Kaiser-Permanente Health Maintenance Organization in North Carolina finding that,as a group, bottlefed babies' annual health costs averaged over $1400 more per infant than their breastfed counterparts (www.greatstar.com/lois/bfh.html).Unfortunately, even with the excellent medical care available to most American infants who become ill with
formula-related maladies, the infant mortality rate has repeatedly been shown to be higher for U.S. infants who are fed infant formula . Research conducted by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences estimated that, for every 1000 infants born in this country each year, four will die because they were artificially fed (Rogan WJ: Cancer From PCBs in Breastmilk? A risk benefit analysis. (Abstract No. 612) Pediatr Res 25:105A, 1989).
Formula tends to be looked on as the norm and b/feeding the "gold top", thats not quite the way it is........