Could all the good of breastfeeding be outdone by giving a 7 week old rusk in a bottle of formula?

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Sorry just have to share this, saw friends 7 week old today, doing reakky well she is BFing but giving her a bottle of formula at night. Today she said she was having half a rusk in it as well.

Now I know HVs and MWs don't recommend it now but I was still when she said it. I said you aren't supposed to now and she asked why and I said I think theres a risk of choking didn't go into the allergies thing and basically you are grinding up a sugary biscuit into your babies milk.

Think it's another one of these things that people don't believe a baby can survive on just milk for 6 months.

tbh I'm finding this thread frustratingly futile since op isn't going to speak to the mum in question. Best we can hope for is that she similarly naively tells the GP or HV who correct her factually. However whether she is likely to see to a HV or even then heed to such advice is another matter.

Fio, good quality studies either control for this, or else only admit to the cohort babies who are healthy and developing without problems.

Just read the studies. You'll see how they recruit.

That's agood point, fio and tiktok, and in fact IMO if you read a study and it doesn't tell you how they chose the babies for their study and how they accounted for other factors like health or social deprivation - you can pretty much throw the study out of the window because it's worthless.

I think that's very rare nowadays though - it's unlikely that a study would be accepted for publication without that info.