If breastfeeding at work is not an option for you, there are a variety of
breastfeeding alternatives available.
Not exact matches
In countries like the United States where
alternatives are readily
available,
breastfeeding isn't recommended.
But when mothers are not able to
breastfeed, it is critically important that a safe, effective, high - quality
alternative be made
available.
Fortunately, there are lots of really great
alternatives available to women who are looking for answers to their
breastfeeding questions.
If a safe
alternative to
breastfeeding is
available and affordable, a woman who is HIV + or has AIDS should be informed of the risks of breast and bottle feeding and advised that breastmilk substitutes may be safer for her baby.
If staff members see women
breastfeeding in the water, they are instructed to «explain politely that following a risk assessment in the pool and within the pool surround this is not permitted but that
alternative areas are
available.»
Additionally, differences in
breastfeeding rates,
available alternatives to breast milk (e.g. commercially manufactured, derived from animal sources), socioeconomic structure and other environmental and cultural factors may also explain some of the conflicting observations (21).
Infant formula, which has been
available for more than a century, remains a welcome
alternative for mothers who can not
breastfeed or choose not to.