At the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Susan Bradley has decided to breast-feed Michaela Rose, born Tuesday morning.
On the one hand, she argues that nearly the only biological difference between men and women is that men can't breast-feed.
Women who breast-feed their babies for at least six months are more likely to achieve a healthy weight after pregnancy, Ostbye adds.
About 70 percent of Caucasian women like Bradley now breast-feed their babies.
And at three months, 79% of the formula group was exclusively breast-feeding, significantly more than the 42% of moms in the group originally instructed to breast-feed.
Lieberman says that the findings may have been affected by the attitude of the women themselves, who said they wanted to exclusively breast-feed but were also open to using formula.
And third, by failing to breast-feed, a mother in many parts of Africa is in effect announcing that she has the virus, and thus exposing herself to both stigma and discrimination.
She also says that the ultimate goal of the study was to find a way to help more mothers breast-feed, and to do so for as long as possible to help their babies.
At one week of age, 10% of the formula group was still using formula in some way as part of their feeding strategy compared to 47% of the group originally assigned to breast-feed but who added formula.
And if we're going to remove formula samples for women to promote breast-feeding, we better come up with a plan to feed the babies of that 5% of women who can't sustain them -- with 4 million births a year, that's 200, 000 moms who need extra help.
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