Breastfed babies breathe better, except when mom has asthma?
http://www.physorg.com/news113124783.html
WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF! I started crying when I read this. One of the things I told myself over and over when I was having problems BFing with Sophie at the beginning was that I have asthma, I want her to have a good chance at not having it later in life, I must breastfeed! And Now, this! It can actually make the baby MORE LIKELY to have it? It stings me to the core. I thought I was helping her, and I might have just been hurting her more. I already feel like crap because I started smoking cigs a few times a day (outside, far from the door, smoking jacket etc...). I know that isn't helpful to her. I've been BFing so much so that she isn't harmed as much by any risidual smoke smell on me or in my milk.
The one thing I thought I was sure I was doing right. Goddammit.
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The academic skeptic in me is not impressed... An interesting interpretation of the data they had. Breastfed babies of asthmatic moms had an increase in total lung capacity (FVC), which was not statistically significant, a decrease in the amount of air blown out in the first second (FEV1) which was not statistically significant. Then they combined those two not statistically significant changes (i.e. no different from chance) and got a supposedly statistically significant change in FEV1/FVC.
I wouldn't put much stock in this one study. I really like that the primary author said the following in the article about her own results: “Human milk is uniquely suited to the feeding of infants, having been subject to selective pressures for millennia. It is premature to suggest any change in breastfeeding recommendations based on one study, particularly given the multiple well-documented benefits of breastfeeding.”
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