More Interesting News...especially for us type 1 parents.

[DarthDiabetes]

New Insights On Link Between Early Consumption Of Cows' Milk And Type-1 Diabetes (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080505093047.htm)

Relation of Time of Introduction of Cow Milk Protein to an Infant and Risk of Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus (http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/jprobs/2008/7/i05/html/pr800041d.html)

Now if I was great at reading all this study stuff....We, because wife is having a hard time pumping in the operating room, are thinking of having to go to formula for our 4month old, anyone know more? Difference between milk and soy based formulas?

Looks like we will have to try harder.

[fgummett]

Breast is best but you gotta do what you gotta do...

Here's another to read:
Breastfeeding makes kids smarter, study says... (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080505/breastfeeding_intelligence_080505/20080505?hub=Health)

[Keezheekoni]

Breast is best. Of course, I'm one of those weirdo-crunchy-granola-moms... I breastfed my kids until they weaned, the shortest time was 3 years, the longest was almost 6 years-old.

If your wife needs tips on pumping, or needs back-up info for getting breaks in order to pump (it's the law in the USA), then have her PM me.

If you *must* go to formula, try soy first. It stinks to high heaven but can help to keep your child from developing a milk allergy. Milk, nuts, strawberries, other allergens should be avoided until 12 months... In fact I exclusively breastfed all of my kids for at least 12 months because I am allergic to a ton of foods. If you wait to feed solids until after 12 months, then they are highly unlikely to get any food allergies. :)

Again, I suggest trying to figure out how to pump first, but as a last resort that's what formula is available for.

[DarthDiabetes]

This is our second kid, 1st one we made it to 8 months before her intern year of residency started. I know it is the law and all, but medicine and the operating room schedules and residency stuff is just not part of the real world, meaning the drawbacks for being a bigger pain in the butt than she already is would be tremendous...(hazing) She is trying of course, we are just running short on the freezer supply and I just want to have back up in case it does happen.

Was thinking soy, first kid had milk protein allergy (only one exposure while she was interviewing and we did not bring enough with us.) So he got nothing till after a year, cheese...etc..

[Keezheekoni]

It's quite expensive, but there are breastmilk banks throughout the country. Another option, something that my friends and I did, which makes other squeamish, is have a friend pump and donate, or wetnurse for your baby.

Whenever someone in my circle of friends needs a babysitter (and we're *all* against artificial nipples as well), if another mom is a nursing mom, the sitting mom will nurse the baby. Some babies won't allow it, but most don't care as long as they *know* that other mom... There was a time when I went to a get together with all of us moms and one of the moms was actually drawing near the end of nursing her son (he was 3), and she was really in pain from engorgement. I let her nurse my baby (who was like 3 months old at the time) and she got relief. Unfortunately I was only there for a few hours and she had to just hand express when we weren't around, but you get the idea.

If getting milk from another source is an option you are comfortable with, look into it. :)