Breast is best - and for very different reasons

I was encouraged to breastfeed by DM who fed all of us herself but when my first was born almost 50 years ago only 2 of us were BFeeding in the ward.
DD was told by the health visitor it was a social class thing and if your mother hadn't, it was unlikely that you would.
Her health visitor was encouraging.
My grand MiL didn't feed her babies because of her inverted nipples. She gave them cows' milk. She told me this herself as she watched me breastfeed, telling me I was very lucky.

My children were born 50 and nearly 49 years ago and I was actively encouraged to breastfeed and did so. I remember the Nestle scandal.

Several decades ago there was a campaign to get people to boycott Nestlé products because they were selling baby formula where people didn't have access to clean water so formula feeding was really unsafe.

Plus ça change...

Although the environmental issues weren't in such sharp focus as they are today, these aspects were talked about when my youngest child was a baby, 20+ years ago.

Thank goodness we do have formula, though, otherwise a lot of babies wouldn't have survived to adulthood.

When my children were born, 40+ years ago, breast feeding was actively discouraged by midwives and nurses, I tried but told that there was no point, that bottle was best and I was made to feel old fashioned and a freak. Also no feeding on demand, strictly every 4 hours. And don't get me started on co sleeping, then babies had to go and stay in their cot from day one and preferably in their own room! Now all this has been reversed by the so called experts!

were not wee i wish there was an edit button, i did read it through ,honestly

jura2 this isn't a new story,i think if you search it has been mentioned on Gransnet before, not too long ago
Terrible all the same,none of my children were breast fed,they wee all fed on Cow& Gate, and all have grown up very fit and muscular[the boys anyway]