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<blockquote data-quote="azure" data-source="post: 1407972" data-attributes="member: 39639"><p>[USER=100904]@Pipp[/USER] The advice to mums is to breastfeed to,reduce the risk of diabetes. So your donated breast milk would have helped those mums who were unable to breastfeed and given their babies a great start in life <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I just want to be clear here - not just to you, in general. The leaflet is NOT saying Don't Give Cows Milk to babies. That is covered in other advice about feeding and weaning. This leaflet is saying that breastmilk reduces the risk of diabetes and that breastfed babies have a reduced risk of diabetes compared to babies bottle-fed with regular formula milk made from the milk of cows.</p><p></p><p>This reduced risk is because the breastmilk itself has a protective effect and helps the integrity of the baby's gut and immune system as well as general health, and also because by breastfeeding and therefore avoiding regular cows milk,formula, the baby isn't exposed to cows milk formula in those early months and thus avoids the substances in it that are thought to increase the risk of Type 1.</p><p></p><p>So the benefit of breastfeeding is double, if that makes sense?</p><p></p><p>I was advised that donated breastmilk was preferable to use if a feed is needed right after delivery for the second reason above - that formula milk contains substances that may cause an increased risk of Type 1. If no donated breastmilk was available, the second best option would be the specially made formula milk that Zand referred to,above. I don't know how widely available this is, so if someone wanted to pursue that option they would probably need to locate some themselves or at least check if it was available at the hospital.</p><p></p><p>So your breastmilk was preferable to the formula that was the alternative, as not only did it potentially reduce the risk of diabetes (of both types) it had numerous other health benefits for those very young babies <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> You did the right thing and should be proud of helping them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="azure, post: 1407972, member: 39639"] [USER=100904]@Pipp[/USER] The advice to mums is to breastfeed to,reduce the risk of diabetes. So your donated breast milk would have helped those mums who were unable to breastfeed and given their babies a great start in life :) I just want to be clear here - not just to you, in general. The leaflet is NOT saying Don't Give Cows Milk to babies. That is covered in other advice about feeding and weaning. This leaflet is saying that breastmilk reduces the risk of diabetes and that breastfed babies have a reduced risk of diabetes compared to babies bottle-fed with regular formula milk made from the milk of cows. This reduced risk is because the breastmilk itself has a protective effect and helps the integrity of the baby's gut and immune system as well as general health, and also because by breastfeeding and therefore avoiding regular cows milk,formula, the baby isn't exposed to cows milk formula in those early months and thus avoids the substances in it that are thought to increase the risk of Type 1. So the benefit of breastfeeding is double, if that makes sense? I was advised that donated breastmilk was preferable to use if a feed is needed right after delivery for the second reason above - that formula milk contains substances that may cause an increased risk of Type 1. If no donated breastmilk was available, the second best option would be the specially made formula milk that Zand referred to,above. I don't know how widely available this is, so if someone wanted to pursue that option they would probably need to locate some themselves or at least check if it was available at the hospital. So your breastmilk was preferable to the formula that was the alternative, as not only did it potentially reduce the risk of diabetes (of both types) it had numerous other health benefits for those very young babies :) You did the right thing and should be proud of helping them. [/QUOTE]
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