Breastfeeding is now bad for babies?

In recent reports from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC, it is now recommended that mothers should not breastfeed their children, they claim this is in order to boost the effectiveness of their vaccinations!

Researchers have released a paper “Inhibitory effect of breast milk on infectivity of live oral rotavirus vaccines”.  The full report on this can be found here http://www.naturalnews.com/034722_breastfeeding_vaccines_CDC.html

When we as mothers should be focussing on the health giving benefits of breastfeeding we are urged instead to do the reverse. As a mother myself of three children I can vouch for the effectiveness of breastfeeding.

My first child struggled to latch on and after a miserable four months of him gaining little weight only to lose it again and my milk drying up we called it a day and moved onto formula. He suffered with crippling colic, rarely slept for more than 20 minutes at a time day or night and was the most miserable of babies.

My second child was a dream to breastfeed, she was a very contented happy baby who slept well and suffered rarely from colic or stomach upsets. 

My third child I also breastfed, this was also a challenge but by combining breast feeding with formula feeds we reached a happy compromise.

Now my children are 15, 12 and 7 years old and now looking back the way it has affected their health is very interesting to me. My eldest has always been the first to catch every virus going and takes the longest to recover. My first daughter is the most robust, she rarely catches anything and when she does she recovers at the speed of light, it would take a runaway truck to stop that one! My second daughter falls in between, and catches her fair share of viruses but usually recovers quickly. To me this is more than just a coincidence.

All three have had the usual childhood immunisations but breastfeeding has been the one thing which has had the most impact on their health and wellbeing. No matter what so called experts proclaim breast will always be best. It is time we saw a return to the ways of Mother Nature and once again lived in harmony and balance with our world instead of trying to poison it and us along with it.