"StrongMoms Empower has such an important message for all moms – whether you work or stay home, breast-feed or formula feed, are strict in your parenting or not – the message to support mom is universal".
And yet, in the moral crusade that breastfeeding promotion has become, formula is likened to nicotine and mothers who formula feed are essentially blamed for raising children more likely to be sick and a burden on public resources.
They cope with adverse events of climate change by collecting animal feed (hay and straw, purchase formula feed and use artificial insemination).
It's OK to formula feed your baby.
Whether you breastfeed or formula feed, work or stay home, eat vegan or fast food, adopted or water birth -- we're all moms.
But as I know from past years (and from personal experience), this week can trigger intense emotions for moms who formula feed.
But none of that means formula has to be Public Enemy No. 1. None of that means parents who formula feed should be left floundering due to an embarrassing lack of support and education.
No mother should ever feel as bad as I did after I had my second child, and by 'Banning the Bag,' Delaware is the third to say, "We don't support you!" to Moms who formula feed.
When mothers formula feed or discontinue breastfeeding early, the risk for infectious illnesses in their children is increased, as is the mother's risk for developing breast and ovarian cancer.
94% of HIV positive women on the PMTCT programme elected to exclusively formula feed from birth [12].
