An article appeared on my homepage today that I had to comment on. According to Fox News, Hospitals in New York City are going ban baby bottles for new Mothers in the Hospital in order to encourage breastfeeding. I don’t deny that Mother’s Milk is best, and that breastfeeding is a more natural way to go. I also don’t deny that it helps to bond Mother to baby and that it can help a new Mom to lose all that pregnancy weight. There are LOTS of benefits- I get it.

What I don’t get is why it should be anyone’s business besides the Mother and maybe the Father. While I agree about the benefits of breastfeeding, my first son never latched on and so I bottle fed him. He is and always has been a very healthy child. If formula fed babies showed significant differences in health or growth than I could understand the push to get women to breastfeed, but in this case I don’t.

Nurses are generally pretty pushy about this subject as well, but now with hospital support behind them, I pity the Mother’s who wish not to breastfeed- whatever their reasons may be.

So, if they can tell us we can’t bottle feed (or at least make it difficult), what’s next?

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