chilly_pupper
They’re using state health hospital records which is a solid data set. But still looking at what is essentially census data, drawing out a correlation, and then making the leap to causation. They account for other demographic factors, but not what is arguably the other key factor which is cause of death.
Not bad science, just lazy. Definitely feels like a marketing thing where they began with a conclusion and used publicly available data to find the support.
All that being said, breastfeeding is definitely good, plenty of studies show this with more reasoning behind it. New parents should give it a try if willing and able. But the last thing new parents need is scare tactic statistics, choosing to formula feed shouldn’t automatically have those parents lumped together with neglectful parents in statistics like these. Fed babies survive.
The mobile app Geddit is good for this on Android. You can browse without being signed in and it gets around the nsfw API restrictions because it’s just scraping the website.
The family plan has me sold too. Sharing login credentials including 2FA with my wife for things like our utility bills and streaming logins is extremely handy, and for other things like investment accounts set up for our son just feels necessary. I use the share feature a lot outside the family too. I’ll share my Paramount login with my friend, but the password is 20 random characters, so I send a link to my saved login and he can copy the user and password.