Is the pretty strawberry beverage a miracle cure for lackluster lactation,
as some breastfeeding mothers claim?
Not exact matches
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As the scheme was tested in areas with low
breastfeeding rates (just 28 per cent of babies were receiving any breastmilk at six - eight weeks), we were delighted that 46 per cent of all eligible
mothers signed up to the scheme and over 40 per cent
claimed at least one voucher.
Will
mothers be subject to criminal indictments for pseudo psychological
claims that label
breastfeeding beyond infancy
as detrimental to child development?
While it is true that some
mothers can't
breastfeed, we would have died out
as a species if the numbers that «
claim» that they can't really couldn't.
Once breasts are
as accepted
as bottles, there will be no need to
claim that
breastfeeding is better, or that we should feel bad for the infants who's
mothers made that choice.
Baby Milk Action has asked Mapa Spontex to provide further information on where it warns
mothers of the possible negative effects on breast feeding of introducing bottle feeding and the difficulty of reversing the decision not to
breastfeed as this was not found on its website, advertising or packaging, certainly not in the same location
as the false
claim that the First Choice teat is «clinically proven» for «optimal combination of breast and bottle feeding» nor alongside advise to introduce feeding bottles by 6 weeks of age at the latest.
One issue is Mapa Spontex, the manufacturer of the NUK brand, markets its First Choice teat with the
claim it is «Clinically Proven» for «Combined Feeding», and encourages
breastfeeding mothers to introduce feeding bottles from
as early
as one week of age.
The supposedly unbiased article reads like an ad for Nestlé, hitting all of the formula industry's main talking points including repeatedly mentioning that
breastfeeding is difficult and not everyone can do it, advising that
mothers have a tin of formula waiting at home before their baby is born,
claiming that formula is
as close
as possible to breastmilk, and even recommending a specific Nestlé brand.