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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: DavesM who wrote (13359)2/26/2006 2:02:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 541598
 
Mothers may choose to do use formula, just as they may choose to give their kids a soda pop with lunch every day when they are school age, but there's no point in encouraging them to do so with marketing in the hospital. It's quite clear that breastfeeding is far superior in most cases- and hospitals have the duty to drive that home. Sending formula home with new mothers isn't exactly saying "This is a vastly inferior way to feed your baby. If you do this your baby will be more likely to contract intestinal infections, ear aches, pneumonia, botulism, bronchitis, staphylococcal infections, influenza..."
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