Breast-Feeding Mentally Bonds Mothers to Infants, Study Finds

I think as mothers we need to do what we feel is right for us and are child breastfeed or don't it is up to us, no one can make you feel less of a mother for how you raise your child or how you feed them but you. There are also the ladies out there that can't breast feed I was able to breastfeed my first 2 babies but not my third little girl, they are all doing great. Some kids are just not always healthy no matter what & some kids are. Just be happy that you can have babies & raise & feed them the way you feel is best & you will be able 2 get up look yourself in the mirror & be proud!!!!!!!!!!

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This study would have more validity had the researchers performed a baseline fMRI before the mothers gave birth (obviously, listening to other babies' cries). Perhaps it isn't the breastfeeding, but an innate "wiring" of these moms that cause the changes. I'm all for breastfeeding (both kids got mom's milk for a year), but I think this particular study is not quite rigorous enough. Perhaps the researchers will add a pre-birth fMRI if they decide to recruit mothers for a larger study.

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i think the researcher got it backwards. the people whose brain activity was as mentioned were more apt to breast feed. so all they have to do is test you, to see if you should be a breast feeder. pretty simple huh? lol.

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I would really love to see a study on mother/child pairs that nursed over two years and how that affects interactions; overall health; and emotional development.

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duh and someone actually gets a pay check for coming up with reports like this - give me a break .

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There isn't room to argue with biology.
You can get pregnant with a turkey baster, you can give birth barely halfway through a normal length pregnancy and we can keep your child in a plastic box on machine until they are stronger. You can feed your human infant the altered milk or powdered proximity from another mammal, much larger and (in theory) less bright than a human has potential to be.
This doesn't ever make these options superior.
I'm a lactation consultant
I'm formula fed myself. I love my
Mom. I'm pretty fit and smart. I still never doubt that I was denied the best, species specific food when I was new and vulnerable merely because of greed.
My mom was told she was too stressed to make milk as my dad was overseas at war. She was given a shot to dry up the milk she was told she wouldn't make. He OB got a monetary kickback the formula companies for administering this shot and creating a customer.
Sad facts- happy ending. My mom isn't to blame.
The SHAME needs to be felt by those, like this person who posted above, who perpetuate obvious myth.
Animals nurse
It's what we do.We do our best. I've yet to meet a parent in 20 years who didn't want the best for their child. We don't need lies and fear to confuse the issue Adopted kids will be fine. Moms who can't nurse will be fine.
I'm not worried about slow-to-grow up kids---does anyone think we have a problem with that here in this country where we hyper speed them into teenager hood at 6-7?
We might serve our whole culture better if we simplified it and reduced the profit pounding soundtrack. This includes our peers and healthcare communities who maybe aren't aware how much " info" is obvious noise.
We know what's right. We need support and a course of loftier thought.

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I have been breastfeeding my son for 27 months now. He has only been sick a handful of times since birth. He stood at 7 months and walked at 10. He now can count to 10 in both english and spanish, and recite this ABC's. He knows instruments by sight and sound..and sings with the radio and strums a guitar. He is very independant. I can only see what a bright strong young person he is and what a wonderful man he will become. To those who speak about something they have no clue about, should learn to be independently quiet. ;) To those new moms let this be encouragement. Don't listen to people who will bad talk you and tell you it's wrong to nurse in public.. or anywhere you feel comfortable doing so... learn to trust your instincts, trust your body and trust your baby to do what comes natural to them. Nursing is a beautiful healthy experience for both mother and child.

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My son died after a day and half of living outside the womb. He was born premature. I had difficulty the third trimester because of health problems I had. If he had lived and I was able to bring him home, I still would not have been able to breastfeed because of the numerous medications I have to take for my life. After my son passed away, I still produced milk because my body knew I had had the baby and knew it was supposed to produce nutrition for my deceased child. I was given medication to dry up the milk that made my breasts so very painful that each day my husband had to bind my breast so they would not become engourged. We were told not to have any more children because of my health problems, Two years later we adopted a beautiful baby girl. I did not breastfed her. I fed her the best formula I believed was available at that time. I love her as if I had given birth to her myself and she has never been seriously ill. a few colds in her 21 years of life. I am just as good and in some was more blessed then a women who has breastfed her baby. I went through a lot of pain and heart ache until God gave me the perfect little girl for our family. I believe that it is a mother's decision if she wants to breastfed or not. Some women need to return to work after their pregnancy leave and breast feeding just is not feasible. And some women can not breastfed because of medication or are unable to have children from their own bodies. Like me!! No one can look at a classroom full of children and tell which ones are breastfed and which one's are not. Mother's just do what you believe is the right way to raise your children and know in your heart that you have done the best you possible could.

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