| Posted: 02 September 2007 at 11:30pm | IP Logged
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Madz I don't think anyone is being forced to do anything. It's totally up to the individual whether they breastfeed or not. Take smoking for example as 3small bought up statistics show that you are more likely to get certain forms of cancer if you smoke but it hasn't forced anyone to give up, people give up if they want to and they smoke if they want to.
I find statistics quite amusing and take them with a pinch of salt. Most statistics can be unraveled and shown not to be a good study with very little effort. They are not scientific studies and most have questionable control groups. People however do listen to them, for example in the 1980's there was a study that showed you were more likely to have a car accident if you drove a red car. Car sales for red cars dropped that year. Did the amount of accidents on the roads drop? Unlikely, just a different car colour had the more accidents. It was nothing to do with the colour of the car making people crash it was the fact there were more red cars than any other colour car on the road at that time.
Statistics can be used to prove or disprove any point. Yes there are health benefits to the mother and to the baby from breastfeeding however, having a daughter who was bottle fed and 2 children that were breastfed I see no huge difference in their health, I do however see huge differences in their personalities.
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Topic: breastfeeding and mental health
