Breastfeeding vs Formula

Many children can't be breast fed or have mothers who are unable to. Don't generalize.

You are talking about breastfeeding. The article talks about breast milk. In the case the distinction is not clear, many mothers use breast pumps.>WHO can now say with full confidence that breastfeeding reduces child mortality and has health benefits that extend into adulthood. On a population basis, exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life is the recommended way of feeding infants, followed by continued breastfeeding with appropriate complementary foods for up to two years

i thght its easy for children on breast feeding..so there is no intuitive one in the world....

This woman agrees with you.>I beg to differ [that there is no reason for a healthy well-fed mother not to breast feed her baby]. There are a lot of healthy well-fed mothers who have found what they think are valid reasons not to breastfeed. I chose not to breastfeed my babies because it was inconvenient, time-consuming, interfered with my sleep, and was incompatible with my job as a doctor working 24 hour shifts in the emergency room and as a flight surgeon on call. I suppose I could have

Breastfeeding works as a natural contraceptive, so I highly doubt it - babies would need to be on solid foods without breastfeeding, and that was much harder in the past then it is now.

While good advice to a breastfeeding mother you're assuming a few things here: age of baby, that I'm breastfeeding, that I'm the mother. Perhaps the baby does not get breastfed (anymore). Perhaps I'm not the mother.

Although we have sort of solved the issue of "which parent" through the uses of baby formula, refrigerated breast milk, and other workarounds, there is still something to be said for direct breastfeeding, which is generally done by the mother (or a wet nurse, but that's another, older workaround). It's not misogynistic to recognize biologically beneficial relationships between small children and their mothers.

Hmm. It’s breast fed children vs formula fed.

Another reason to breastfeed, if that's a viable option for the parents.

Except for baby formula vs. breast feeding!