Kelly, I think this is a wonderful opportunity to discuss this and keep it in the context of the article.

OK, I haven't gotten all the way through this article because of it's size (and I have dial up), but I will endeavour to read it all.

While I agree wholeheartedly that breastfeeding is the way to go, I do think that there needs to be a little more leeway on how we feed our babies without incurring guilt and I don't think that scare tatics about various diseases and infant mortalities is the right way of going about things. Some will scoff and say "well I was fed xxx and i am fine" etc etc - but that is irrelevant to what this article is about.

I also agree that there is a huge lack of education about BF and usually it is left until the problems develop to seek help from lactation consultants and the like.

I haven't actually gotten to this bit, but in regards to what Kelly was saying about Nestle, I don't agree with multinational companies pushing their products using payoffs in circumstances where they are destined to fail. Infant mortality is high enough as it is in third world countries without doctors being paid to get women to FF, when BF is essentially their only option to keep their babies well. What they are doing borders on the criminal.

I do want to know though, when they refer to there being more FF babies that die from any cause in the first 6 weeks, how do they know that it was because they were FF? Any baby can die from any cause - regardless of how it was fed IMO.

I will leave it there until I have read the rest of the article.