Hamburg, January 13: Breast Milk A controversial new research has stressed that women can easily forget all that they have been told about the benefits of breast milk and breast-feeding, while sharing that contrary to the traditional view, breast milk is not necessarily important for children during the first few months of being born.
“Baby formula is as good as breast milk”, said Professor Sven Carlsen, lead researcher of the Norwegian study team. According to the study, hormones in the womb before birth are what really affect the health of a growing infant.
Hormones in the womb in the pre-natal stage are what influence a mother’s ability to breast-feed her child as well, resulting in a misconception that there is a link between a child’s health and breast feeding.
“Pregnant women who have higher levels of androgens breastfeed less. Probably this is a direct effect of hormones that simply limit nursing ability by reducing milk production in the breast”, said professor Carlsen.
Details of the research, based on analysis of data from studies on the subject over 50 countries, have been published in the January edition of the journal Acta Obstestricia and Gynecologia Scandinavica.
——-Agencies