My husband as bottle-fed and is healthy as a horse. I was breast fed and I have autoimmune diseases and allergies like crazy.
I breast fed my daughter and loved it. With my son, things didn’t go well at all. He couldn’t even tolerate formula. We ended up having to feed him on a special ‘predigested’, hypoallergenic formula that cost 4x as much as the regular stuff. His entire intestinal tract was swollen and bleeding and he had malabsorption syndrome.
BOTH of my kids have allergies and my son is a T-1 diabetic.
I don’t think it had a damn thing to do with their formula. I would’ve love to have breast fed my son, but he’d have been dead if I’d have pushed it.
Pressuring new moms is NOT a good thing. New moms are already stressed and the last thing they need is to be lectured every few hours about how they’re already screwing up.
Thanks for your reply, Marie. You did the right thing. It’s ridiculous to be “pc” over formula vs breastfeeding. Mothers need to be left alone in their decision-making. Not have some pansy mayor tell them what to do!