People really do need to get over this stuff. He was making a joke! He wasn’t doing anything wrong, and I’m quite sure he went over the “script” stuff about possible topics with his wife before he even went to the show. They are an honest, normal family, which is truly appreciated in these times.

Am I coming on here as a medical professional ??? NO. I was merely stating a report that I had seen on the news not too long ago and information that was told to me by many health professionals and lactation consultants. This is a comment box on a celebrity site..I wasn’t aware that it was a medical site where people get medical information with bibliographies necessary. I am sure if I had the time,patience and no life,I imagine as Ellen stated above,that I could find something. My baby is far more important than carrying on with some pointless debate on a site I just visit when he naps.

LOL and I wasn’t even talking about toxins. The study was about healthy women vs women who ate junk/smoked etc. Mind you,I always thought it was odd that even though breast is best,you still would have to take things like Vitamin D.

And seriously, get off your soapbox…or you know, do the seminars where the information is actually relevant.. I was not saying that no one should care, I was saying for people to MIND YOUR DAMN BUSINESS when it comes to someone elses child and stop being so judgemental and being as someone above stated a “sanctimommy”. Formula or breast, whichever is a personal preferance and up to the parent.There is no need to make anyone who did not breastfeed feel inadequate.

You remind me of the nurse at the hospital who kept telling me it was fine that my NICU baby was not getting any milk because my milk hadn’t come in yet and to keep breastfeeding and not to offer him a bottle and that IV fluids and offering a breast with no milk was best.I had to watch my child be poked and bled after every feeding just to make sure he was getting adequate nutrients and sugar.They would prick his heel and squeeze his blood out manually into a little test tube thing. Listening to him screaming in pain made me want to do all sort of mean things to that woman. I kept pleading with them,my baby is hungry,please,lets just feed him a bottle,I will try breastfeeding later.The responses I got were I guess supposed to make me feel like a bad mother that was feeding poison to my child by opting to bottlefeed.Finally I had a huge meltdown not caring what they thought and got some formula.The poor child took so much because he was starving.

It’s funny,after I started feeding him formula, the prickings stopped, his sugar went back up and his stay was cut down from 7 additional days and he was released the very next day. I think I have had enough of “breastfeeding professionals” for one lifetime thanks. I am tired of other people thinking they know what is best for other people’s children and thinking they know best.Just try minding your own business.

It’s funny, didn’t I say above that the breastfeeding crowd tends to get more offended than the bottlefeeding bunch ?

Do you have a citation for the study you speak of? Because I am a trained and experienced breastfeeding facilitator and am very familiar with the research, and have no idea what you are talking about. Yes, there was a study 2-3 years back about toxins in breastmilk that got some people riled up. However, the whole point of the study was that toxins are EVERYWHERE; they are in our air and our water supply. They are in the water used to make formula, too.

There has been NO study that ever indicated that breastfeeding is “only” good if you follow some perfect diet. Even if it were true that breastmilk lacked some important nutrients if mother’s diet were not good enough, breastfeeding would still be recommended as the superior food for babies because of its immunilogical properties, ones that affect lifelong health for both mother and baby.

Who the heck cares how babies are fed? Entire coalitions of physicians, WHO staff, public health officials, cancer experts (as not breastfeeding increases mother’s change of breast and ovarian cancer), baby care specialists, I could go on and on. It shows ignorance of the issues to act as though it’s the difference between Coke and Pepsi. We know too much now to let mothers-to-be think that it’s an inconsequential decision with no real detrimental effects. An ASTOUNDING amount of peer-reviewed research has made it very very clear that formula feeding introduces risks to babies in many areas of health, from increased SIDS rates to cancer to asthma to allergies to obesity to less-optimal jaw development, higher rates of morbidity and mortality all around.

To suggest that nobody should care how a baby is fed is akin to saying that nobody should care if anybody smokes, it’s all good as long as their family loves them – I mean we can find research for anything, right? I mean, cigarette smoking’s probably not that bad, it’s just all those crazy studies that make it look that way, right?/(sarcasm).