Breastfeeding is best if you can do it, but formula gets better all the time. Sixty-five percent of cells sorted for boys had a Y chromosome.
New research suggests that lead can be passed from mother to child through breastfeeding.
Researchers from the Graduate School of the Environment at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, studied 24 infants between two and three months old and 21 mothers, and reported their findings in the October issue of Environmental Health Perspectives . To start, the study confirmed past speculation that lead stored in a woman's bones could be released when she began nursing. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the country's first-ever emergency birth control kit, reports The Gate, the online counterpart of the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner newspapers. The pills, which resemble regular oral contraceptives but are eight times stronger, have a success rate of 75 percent. While such treatment leads to miracles in some cases, resuscitating babies born at 23 and 26 weeks often just postpones death.