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Kanga Beauty tip of the month: For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. - >The women on MKB are intelligent enough to Exactly. And while I realize this is a sensitive issue, there's a real problem
>understand that formula is a life-saving product that definitely has a place
>among a limited population. But this still doesn't mean that it is not
>inferior to breast milk.
>When your breast milk does not come in due to a
>medical, hormonal, or structural difficulty, you might have to give formula,
>but breast milk is still superior.
with refusing to accept that formula _is_ an inferior product to breastmilk,
even when one truly cannot bf and so must resort to formula.
I can only guess how painful it would be not to be able to bf, but I think it's
a huge mistake to deal with that pain by refusing to acknowledge the problems
with formula.
As long as women who use formula refuse to accept that formula _is_ very
inferior to breastmilk, it will stay that way. The formula companies will have
no real reason to search for ways to discover just what those good things are
in breastmilk, to study how to at least attempt to duplicate them and put them
in formula.
Already I understand that in Europe there is a formula available that has some
of the fatty acids in it that make breastmilk a superior food. It is
unavailable in America. Why is that, I wonder? Is it because American women
are so much more concerned with making themselves feel better by defending the
_product_ they were forced to use, rather than the situation that left them
with only a distant second-best choice.
Wouldn't it be better to expend some of the energy they use up being defensive
about formula toward urging the formula companies to work harder at improving
the product?
Blessings,
Audrey Hepburn