In several previous blogs I mentioned the normalcy of breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is not the best, is has no benefits, is not special nor magical. Breastfeeding just is, is the norm. The substitutes – heavily marketed by their producers who need to keep their wallets and those of their shareholders healthy – are getting better and better, but come no way near the norm. Not being breastfed exposes babies to a diversity of risks. Those risk can be divided into several categories. The categories include bacterial contamination in the container (e.g. powder), during preparation, from inadequate cleaning of the feeding device, and during storage after opening the container; chemical leaching from containers and feeding devices; mechanical challenges like aspiration from feeding device, inadequate skin to skin contact, overeating due to inappropriate flow; immunological suppression by changes in gut lining and insufficient dosages of antibodies; nutritional inadequacies including missing nutrients (the many known and yet unknown components of human milk), imbalances in nutrients (fatty acids, types of sugards, etc), and malabsorption of nutrients (necessitating higher amount of iron and vitamin D to compensate).
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