All the cancers that formula feeding cause. any figures?

[mumtotwoboys]

So we know bottle feeders suffer more breast and ovarian cancers, and their babies suffer more childhood cancers (like leukimia) and bowel cancers later in life..
Any specific percentages?
Anything showing the amount of cancers it causes in relation to smoking?

Oh shit, that means all 70's babies like myself are going to die -

Not read the whole thread but something caught my eye by the OP:
"I'm sorry you're so offended by what the NHS are saying."

I couldn't bf (my midwife told me when DD was 7 days old that my milk had never come in) and I was very upset. I went down the BLW route when DD was 6m old. When I mentioned BLW to my NHS health visitor, she advised me it was dangerous and too risky. DD is now 18m old and will eat anything. I would recommend BLW to anyone but the NHS advises against it.

I'm not saying FF is better than bf but let's not assume the NHS are 100% correct all the time eh?

"with the cheery sign off "Have fun" and without a shred of sensitivity or care for the hurt and damage they cause"

I meant have fun debating between yourselves, because why would you be in a thread like this if you didn't enjoy it? Perhaps I should have signed off with something a little less friendly as clearly insults and swear words are the way things fly on here

As I didn't make myself clear, I posted the link & quote which includes the word hypothesis - hypothesis and 'proof of cause' are totally different things. The intention of said posting was to add further meat to an intelligent discussion (hence 'have fun' debating; hypotheses(sp?) can be wrong after all) NOT as an emotionally-charged response in the ongoing bitchfest some of you seem keen to engage in.

Now, you're welcome to continue making assumptions about my intentions, but don't expect me to apologise or feel guilty for things I haven't said.

Why does the italics not actually work?

I think you have to do it before and after each word.

Want to wade in again with a couple of thoughts about the whole - 'it's good to promote bf, but don't denigrate formula' stance that you often see taken on these threads.

My understanding is that casual, endemic formula use by the majority bf mothers has been one of the main reasons for the huge fall out rates in breastfeeding in the UK. I just don't think you can have widespread use of bottles and formula, and massive amounts of formula marketing and have high rates of continuing breastfeeding at the same time. With some exceptions, formula use damages continued breastfeeding - especially when it's started in the first few weeks of a baby's life.

At the moment bf is 'sold' very heavily to women, but if it's not well-supported (and we know it isn't) women are going to turn to formula when they're struggling - because formula and bottle-feeding are EVERYWHERE you look. And using formula will damage women's chances of bf. There's got to be some sort of cultural resistance to giving a baby a bottle at the first sign of bf difficulty. And part of building up that resistance is being honest about the drawbacks of ff.

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and i called you tittytittybangbang on the other thread haha sorry!

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I just wanted to throw this in...

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1241051/Breast-milk-NOT-better-baby-formula-scien tists-claim.html

sorry try this

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1241051/Breast-milk-NOT-better-baby-formula-scientists-claim.html

I am a cancer specialist and know of no causal link between formula feeding and cancer. there is some evidence that breast feeding reduces the risk of breast cancer, but you have to feed for a long long time to see a benefit. children bottle fed are not at any greater risk as far as I know

You shouldn't believe everything you read, esp. in the daily fail!

See:
breastfeeding.blog.motherwear.com/2010/01/and-the-backlash-continues.html
bengoldac re.posterous.com/breastfeeding-nonsense-in-the-media-where-did
boycottnestle.blogspot.com/20 10/01/what-carlsen-said.html
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2010/0115/1224262378597.ht ml

...etc.

It would be nice though if we could emphasise the "support" bit though. Speaking for myself I was incredibly anti-formula and still am, however I ended up formula-feeding my ds as things went wrong, I didn't know enough, and neither did the midwives or anyone else who was meant to be supporting me. I mananged to continue for about 5 months, but was never able to exclusively bf, as apparently my prolactin receptors were not switched on in the early crucial weeks.
So although I was aware of all the benefits of bf and the risks of ff, this made no difference at all, as I had no choice, as we do not live in a culture where it is possible to access other women's breastmilk.
Please could we have a campaign for more support as this is what will make the difference, not someone starting an unpleasant thread to upset people, don't kid yourselves.

Thanks HoochieMomma

www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7611360/Breast-milk-kills-cancers-claim-scientists.html

This may not be the right forum for this post but saw this today which seems to reinforce the link between breastfeeding and reducing cancer risk - which logically implies that bottlefeeding increases it relative to breastfeeding. And I have just weaned my 8 month old to the bottle!!!!!

Ah well - one more thing she can blame me for.