Facts are facts.
That doesn’t mean formula is terrible for your child – far from it. With good overall healthcare and nutrition throughout a lifetime, most kids in developed countries will do really well whether they were fed breastmilk or formula as babies. And again, breastfeeding is not the only way to bond with your baby. In fact, for some women, formula feeding might be the better way to bond with your baby.
But to say that there is no benefit to being fed breastmilk just isn’t true – and taking every study and turning it upside down to try to prove this is misguided. There is a way to wholly support either choice without messing with science here. Especially these days, we need to rely on scientific evidence as we make health choices for our families – and not all the pseudoscience mumbo jumbo that seems to be at our fingertips all the time. What’s more, we need to be able to talk about these things clearly and thoughtfully, without worrying that we are automatically shaming someone just by stating facts.choices when it comes to whether to breastfeed or not.
Deciding to breastfeed or not is a complex choice, one that can sometimes be very painful for a mother to make. Moms need awesome support as they navigate these challenging waters. But erasing the scientifically proven facts about breastfeeding is not helpful when it comes helping a mother make this decision.
Mothers are smarter than that, and don’t like to be lied to. I believe that mothers are more powerful than they know, even when they are at their breaking points – and the way to fully empower mothers is to give them good, clear information, along with honest, non-judgmental,
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