CDC says postpone breastfeeding: Making up facts, anti-vax style!

Maybe there are infinite ways to interpret that interpretation, but my meager brain only reads it as saying that it might be possible that breastmilk is a culprit in lowered response to vaccines and that someone should look into the idea of mothers refraining from breastfeeding immediately before or after the rotavirus vaccine is administered. Maybe, perhaps a breastmilk fast of a couple hours before and after administration along with a recommendation against nursing the child as a means of comfort immediately following the administration of the vaccine. And that recommendation might only be given to women in the developing world, because this study was specifically addressing a problem in poor and developing countries and not an existing problem in the US.

Natural News, however took those words to mean that the CDC recommends putting off breastfeeding until the vaccine schedule is complete....

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I wondered to myself, did the CDC ever follow up on this? Did they make a “just to be safe” recommendation? Because I’m a thorough investigator, I thought I should continue to dig far deeper than the Natural News team did....

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So I hit ctrl-F and typed in “breast”, as a thorough investigator should… and uncovered the truth THEY don’t want you to know! (“They” being Ethan Huff, mostly.)

Breastfeeding does not appear to diminish immune response to rotavirus vaccine. Infants who are being breastfed should be vaccinated on schedule.

So there you go. There is nothing, not a single piece of evidence supporting the claim that the CDC recommends “delaying breastfeeding” in favor of vaccination. In fact, their website offers information and resources for breastfeeding including the APA and WHO’s recommendations to breastfeed for at least 12 and 24 months, respectively.