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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you women shock me. It's a week. OP will be gone for a week. it's not like she is leaving for a month. Men leave for a week on business trips and no one says anything. Her child needs his dad just as much as he needs his mom. Her husband sounds like a great dad who will be able to handle things for a week. No need to make OP feel bad. [/quote]
True, but baby is breastfed. That’s the key difference. I wouldn’t leave a breastfed baby for a week. It would mess up my milk supply (pumping is just not the same) and as another PP mentioned, babies at that age greatly benefit from the antibodies in their mother’s beast milk. Now if OP’s baby was exclusively formula-fed, then there wouldn’t be an issue.[/quote]

Breastfeeding are highly overstated. There are very minimal benefits for a breastfed baby. [/quote]

Dp  [b]The only reason is the lack of information because it is difficult for science to "test" the benefits of breastfeeding.  [/b]Each woman makes milk specifically for their infant.  Not shaming anyone who can't but, just because there are no studies does not mean it isn't good for you.  After all, most studies are done on men and not on women.[/quote]

Translation:  "Yes, science doesn't have a lot of information on this point.  But I know - I just know!! - that if science did have more info, the results would confirm my opinion.  I know it!!"

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And. Yet you are claiming it has zero benefits? It goes both ways and you have no science to back you up.  Frankly,  you sound a bit hysterical.   [/quote]

DP, but you're misrepresenting PP.  She said there are minimal benefits, and that's actually what the science says.  [/quote]

But if they haven't done any studies how do they really know?  [/quote]

There are some studies.  They show some (minimal) benefits.  Some people have extrapolated from that small amount of data that there is a vast difference between formula and breastmilk, which is a personal belief and not based in science.  I can't tell if you don't realize you're arguing with different people or if you think that these little strawman responses are compelling, but it's really a waste of typing.  No one said zero benefits, and no one said there have not been any studies.  [/quote]

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