Comments on: Enriched Formula Study Flawed http://breastfeedingbasics.info/enriched-formula-study-flawed Breastfeeding Information And Supplies Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:20:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Reenie http://breastfeedingbasics.info/enriched-formula-study-flawed/comment-page-1#comment-5209 Reenie Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:29:04 +0000 http://breastfeedingbasics.info/blog/breastfeeding-news/enriched-formula-study-flawed/#comment-5209 Also, those babies were not given milk produced by their own mothers, whose bodies somehow know to produce "enriched" breastmilk since the babies are premature: "Milk produced by women who deliver prematurely differs from that produced after a full-term pregnancy. Specifically, during the first month after parturition, pre-term milk maintains a composition similar to that of colostrum.." Source: Hamosh, Margit, PhD, Georgetown University Medical Center "Breast-feeding: Unraveling the Mysteries of Mother's Milk." Also, those babies were not given milk produced by their own mothers, whose bodies somehow know to produce “enriched” breastmilk since the babies are premature:

“Milk produced by women who deliver prematurely differs from that produced after a full-term pregnancy. Specifically, during the first month after parturition, pre-term milk maintains a composition similar to that of colostrum..”

Source:
Hamosh, Margit, PhD, Georgetown University Medical Center “Breast-feeding: Unraveling the Mysteries of Mother’s Milk.”

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