# I know my baby is adorable...please stop asking how old or threatening to kidnap him

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 20, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-baby-is-adorable-please-stop-asking-how-old-or-threatening-to-kidnap-him/705178 "2014-11-20T17:25:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-know-my-baby-is-adorable-please-stop-asking-how-old-or-threatening-to-kidnap-him/705178/141 "2014-12-01T16:27:53Z")

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My wife was unable to breast feed and felt terrible. It has helped a bit that the [latest research](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953614000549) suggests that in the long term, formula fed babies and breast fed babies show absolutely no statistically significant differences in 10 out of 11 important outcomes. The 11th was a very slight increase in asthma.

The entire “breast is best” movement appears to be based on confounding variables that have nothing to do with breast milk itself.

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