What it’s like to hear ‘breast is best’ when you literally don’t have breasts — WorldBreastfeedingWeek
“Have you tried breastfeeding yet?” the nurse asked me as I sat with my newborn baby“I’m not breastfeeding—I can’t. It should say that on my chart,” I replied.“I’m sure. Can you tell me how much to give my son of this bottle? I need to feed him.”
The “breast is best” theme continued once my son was born, as I joined parenting groups and spent time with other new moms. Discussions of breast pumps, nursing bras and mastitis flooded the Facebook groups I had joined. At a family drop-in centre I frequented, a poster from the local public health department hung prominently on the wall, proclaiming the merits of giving only breast milk for the first six months, with a not-so-subtle undertone of disdain for formula feeders.
That’s not to say having a formula-fed baby didn’t come with its own challenges. No advice or guidelines were provided to me about how to feed my baby—literally nothing about how to prepare formula safely, what type of formula to use, how much to give—presumably because
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