Breastfeeding should be given a hell of a lot more respect and resource then it currently gets, for a start none of us would even be here right now if it weren’t for the fact that women can breastfeed,
breastfeeding enabled the continuation of the human race,
it helps save money on buying formula,
it benefits the environment by reducing the huge industrial processing and packaging involved in manufacturing formula,
It reduces consumption of cows milk thus helping the poor dairy cows who can be treated appallingly, pumped full of drugs to promote a huge oversupply of milk,
it promotes more skin to skin time between baby and mother which has huge benefits to the baby,
it is always ready, at the perfect temperature and you don’t need to worry about whether you sterilised the bottle properly or not, or whether the water was hot enough to kill the bugs which can lurk in formula,
it is a live bioactive fluid which is constantly responding to and changing in accordance with your babies needs, the science behind it really is incredible, not to mention the potential health benefits for the mother too,
the current low rates of breastfeeding are really disappointing, I really really hope the pandemic goes some way towards encouraging women to breastfeed, this whole crisis could have been absolutely catastrophic for formula feeding mothers, at the start of this whole thing when people suspected lock down was coming and stated ransacking the supermarkets I seen a woman crying in the baby isle as there was no formula left for her two week old baby, she had no car to drive to another supermarket, I imagine she managed to get some fairly quickly but imagine if the virus had been much worse and massively affected the manufacturing and supply chain of formula, many people could have been left without formula for really young babies
sorry for the long post, I read this thread from the beginning and some of the negative comments towards breastfeeding have really dismayed me, it’s just crazy how breastfeeding is now in the huge minority when it’s the biological norm and the very reason the human race was able to continue, what the hell has gone wrong?
This is absolutely not aimed at people who tried to breastfeed but couldn’t continue for various reasons by the way, there just seems to be a rising number of women willing to get pregnant and push a baby out but not willing to even try breastfeeding.