I breast fed all my five, but for some reason my milk wasn't suitable for my youngest and he had to go on to a 'predigested' type of formula (prejomin) from the age of 3mths (I actually mixed fed him until 6mths as I was unwilling to totally stop breastfeeding bacause the closeness, for me, was a huge part of it).
Same child now has been found to have a dismotile bowel which was probably the cause of his feeding issue, but NOT caused by them tho I believe.
Now had I read something like this at the point in time when I was in the process of having to swap him over (and so feeling very guilty already and low too to boot), I would have been very distressed......VERY.
Articles like this don't IN ANY WAY help mum who already, for one reason or another, feel guilty over whatever milk choice they make for their beloved child.
and for what it is worth......i breast fed exclusivly my three daughters yet they, without exception, all suffered from gastroentoritis, pnuemonia's (x 3 for DD3..), reflux (severe for DD2 & DD3), virus's, and many other illnesses that required many many hospital admittances. YET, my friends who ALL bottle fed theirs (I was the unusual one in breastfeeding and late weaning!!!!), never once had theirs kiddies in hospital....unless for broken limbs or accidents.
For me, that was a type of 'smack-in-the-face' for me being the 'natural' feeder, yet mine were the ones who had all the illnesses I was hoping to avoid.
oh yeah.....mine have asthma and excma too.....DD2 needing nebulizers and is on serotide steriod inhaler and the becotide does nothing. DD3 also is asthmatic.
DS2 by contrast, altho ending up on bottles and having a bowel disorder, has neither!!!!!
This article I am afraid doesn't help mums who have feeding issues already