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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Posters on this thread are confusing a lot of things. In general, "absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence". This means that just because there is no harm that's been demonstrated from cold formula and no benefit that's been demonstrated from warm formula doesn't mean there is no harm or no benefit. Just that there is no evidence of either. You can extrapolate from this, since formula has been around for a while, that it's unlikely that any harm or benefit is substantial or it would have been observed by now...but that is not a scientific fact, just sort of a clinical judgment.

At the end of the day, I don't really care what people do. But you should all at least be arguing about the same thing.

-- PhD scientist who mixed room temp water with powder formula for her DD[/quote]

Actually this all started when OP made some pretty grandiose evidentiary claims about formula temperature, which she has completely failed to back up.  I posted upthread a reference to a study indicating that the temperature of feeds makes no difference (they all raise body temperature as the baby metabolizes the food); and that heating milk in the NICU could cause harm (contamination).  I think it's pretty conclusive that there's NO evidence of the harm of cold/room temperature formula, contrary to OP's claims; therefore OP is full of it.  If RT formula were hurting babies, we'd know that.  But in point of fact, the actual research on hypothermia and preemies focuses on things like wrapping babies in plastic and keeping the room warm, not the temp of the formula. [/quote]

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