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Breastfeeding
Advocacy campaigns can make nonnursing mothers feel second-rate
July 21st, 2005
Campaigns to promote breastfeeding can leave new mothers feeling as though they are second-rate parents if they feed their babies formula milk. Researchers at the University of Kent in the U.K., citing NOP World, said that about 1 in 10 mothers said they felt a sense of failure, guilt, and uncertainty at not breastfeeding, having intended to breastfeed then finding that their feeding did not go to plan. They were also worried about what the health visitor or midwife might say to them as well as being concerned about the effects of formula milk on their babies' health. Frank Furedi and Ellie Lee said mothers have an ambivalent attitude towards...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-07-21)
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