Autism & breastmilk

[mush4brains]

Just had my over dramatic mum on the phone telling me shes read in the DAily Mail about mothers passing something through their breastmilk which can lead to austism. I cant find the artical anywhere on their website & she does tend to misinterpret info. Has anyone else heard anything about this?
She phoned me in a very "told you breastfeeding wasnt that great voice" & its really got my back up. Arghhhh.

I am sorry, mush, but I am glad she is not my mum. This is a horrible thing to say to anyone. I have been on the Mail website, too, and there is nothing there...get her to read it out to you.

There was stuff about tv watching and autism - do you think she might have misunderstood this???

When she reads it out to you and you interpret it correctly, tell her calmly how cross it made you feel

"The Daily Mail"...........
need i say more???????

Never heard of this.
Some people just like to be melodramatic.

my mil wasn't exactly encouraging when i was attempting to breast feed. it really didn't help. people should keep these kinds of opinions to themselves!

/link{http://www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/content/1/1/16/abstract\this study} indicates that not breastfeeding increases the risk of autism (unless the formula used instead has added supplements in it).

Dratted links - you can copy and paste

link

Dimpled - you're just showing off now

yes I know - I did that without even looking at the computer.

TA-DA!

Thanks ladies, she's not answering the phone at the moment!!!

There has been some mutterings about things like mercury passing through breastmilk. Apparently autism is more common in firstborns. Not sure that takes account of first births being more likely to be difficult.

There is much stronger evidence for some types of autism being related to gut problems, and in particular leaky gut. This is made worse/triggered by the 'wrong' gut bacteria- breastfeeding should protect against leaky gut to some extent.

FWIW ds2 and ds3 were at a very high risk of autism (1 in 30), ds1 is severely autistic. I bfed ds2 for over 2 years and would have bfed ds3 for longer than a few weeks if I could have. I felt that the benefits outweighed the risks wrt breastfeeding- although I will admit I was concewrned about ds3 breastfeeding when I was having iv antibs. Mainly because I knew that ds1 had a dodgy gut though (also bfed - for over a year). DS3 does indeed have a dodgy gut, so in our family it doesn't seem to be related ti bfeeding.