Re: Infant feeding 'may affect brain'

There are few women who, with an attitude of determination and a willingness to take action, truly cannot breastfeed. It's heartbreaking to me that formula companies market their substandard products on a platform of "convenience" -- how can buying, mixing, and cleaning up the bottles for formula be easier than lifting up one's shirt and nursing?

I have become pretty annoyed by women who don't want to nurse. I am as fundamentally lazy and selfish as they come, and given that admission, I think it was far easier and less taxing on me to nurse the my twins than to deal with buying and preparing formula! Babies must be fed one way or the other -- why not take a look at all the evidence that proves that BF provides the ideal physiological, mental, and emotional platform for early development and lifetime health, and DO IT? Having a baby in the NICU is all the more reason to commit to pumping and feeding, then eventual nursing. And evne the really tiny ones are surprisingly scrappy when it comes to nursing. Tweet