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breast vs formula on Prof Regan NOW

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LlamaFarmerKarmaHarmer · 30/04/2009 21:24

BBC2

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LlamaFarmerKarmaHarmer · 30/04/2009 21:25

Oh good critical start

I'm looking forward to this

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LlamaFarmerKarmaHarmer · 30/04/2009 21:27

1.5m baby's mother's milk less fat than older baby's mother's milk

'it changes from week to week, even hour to hour: this is breastmilk's magic property...'

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LlamaFarmerKarmaHarmer · 30/04/2009 21:28

'studies show formula milk grow more quickly because of greater calories'

BM 15-20% lower in calories

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MamaHobgoblin · 30/04/2009 21:29

Is breastmilk really that lower in calories?! This is news to me...

MamaHobgoblin · 30/04/2009 21:30

I see she's on-message with the NHS 2009 breastfeeding slogan then! (Every day makes a difference)

Blimey, that was a short segment.

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LlamaFarmerKarmaHarmer · 30/04/2009 21:31

the message seemed to be though that this was 'appropriately' lower: ie what babies need.

Very short item: not really unpacked.

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BeehiveBaby · 30/04/2009 21:31

"1.5m baby's mother's milk less fat than older baby's mother's milk

'it changes from week to week, even hour to hour: this is breastmilk's magic property...' "

Voiceover states that this is the 'only' property that formula milk can't hope to replicate

MrsTittleMouse · 30/04/2009 21:32

Impressed to see that they obviously have replicated environment-specific antibodies in formula.

LeninGrad · 30/04/2009 21:33

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BeehiveBaby · 30/04/2009 21:35

not sure, i.5 minutes into segment perhaps?

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LlamaFarmerKarmaHarmer · 30/04/2009 21:36

sorry - was typing quickly the item was so short. a baby of one and a half month old...

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ilovemydogandMrObama · 30/04/2009 21:37

Wonder if she sends a breast milk sample to the Boots lab

SallyJayGorce · 30/04/2009 21:37

Not intending to start a riot but as someone who struggled with bf and didn't do it for anywhere near as long as I thought I would, I find phrase 'breast VERSUS formula' very unhelpful. It is all feeding and to relish the 'battle' between the two is an approach which alienates the many women who ff - especially ones who had wanted to bf because of all the known positives. Have read a lot about this on here recently and am fed up with the taking sides approach. Really childish and destructive IMO.

I am interested in the prog too but not watching it from my high horse, it makes it hard to see other points of view.

BeehiveBaby · 30/04/2009 21:39

For the purposes of the programme it was a tongue in cheek competition though, ie. which would be let into the nursery?

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LlamaFarmerKarmaHarmer · 30/04/2009 21:39

Apologies: you're quite right, the title was provocative. The programme itself did rather set it up to compare the two however though.

Sorry.

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MrsTittleMouse · 30/04/2009 21:41

Almost everyone on here is pro-womem who formula feed but anti-formula milk companies, in my experience. Apart from a couple of loons.

SallyJayGorce · 30/04/2009 21:51

I know - and apology accepted LlamaFarmer. And I have come across a loon or two on here and in RL but I know they are not representative of the majority. A great friend of mine is a BF counsellor who campaigns against formula companies and has bf all her children until they were nearly four. She was sad she couldn't help me but completely understood why ff was the best option for me. And most are like her - I do know that. Just been reading several heated debates and can't understand why we get our nursing bras into such a twist. It is emotional I suppose but there is some nonsense thrown about too. That's all!

By the way - are you actually a Llama Farmer? I might need to start another thread to ask you some stuff...

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LlamaFarmerKarmaHarmer · 30/04/2009 21:53

noooooooo

[am not actually a Llama farmer]

Did not know there were such things. Had to namechange recently and the kids came up with the name

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ilovemydogandMrObama · 30/04/2009 21:55

Will watch program, but would have thought Prof regan wold have sent samples to labs to find out from a scientific stance the beneficial properties...

now, that would be interesting

StealthPolarBear · 30/04/2009 21:55

SJG, you're right that in general that sort of phrasing helps no one and gets lots of people quite rightly annoyed.
And PMSL that you handily bumped into a llama farmer just when you needed one. An accountant, a dentist, someone who works in a school, no you need...a llama farmer

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LlamaFarmerKarmaHarmer · 30/04/2009 21:57
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SallyJayGorce · 30/04/2009 22:01

Hey you never know your luck! A stealthy polar bear is always useful too although getting hard to find. Am going off to have a bath now but nice to post something on this subject and not be in some kind of punch up. Take care all and good night.

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LlamaFarmerKarmaHarmer · 30/04/2009 22:05

I've always found polar bears a bit lumbering myself. No dark glasses or invisibility cloaks or anything.

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SallyJayGorce · 30/04/2009 22:06

The sackcloth and ashes is a step too far - and you can have the badge back in the morning. I've defended bf mates while waving my bottle about completely ruining my argument and vice versa. I'm just alert to al this at the moment because SIL is bfing beautifully without a single twinge and it brought back old expectations and sorrows. Still, my mum fed my brother on breast milk hand expressed with a nip of brandy. What am I worrying about?!

SallyJayGorce · 30/04/2009 22:08

I think I just saw a polar bear tip toeing past the window in a fedora. Yep. If he'd switched his phone off I'd never have spotted him.