This is a letter my sister wrote to the author-I could not have said it  
better!
 
Dear Ms. Peyser,

As a fulltime working mother with three children, I  respectfully disagree 
with your opinion on breast-feeding.  Especially your  last paragraph.  If 
anything, in the first three months of life, breast  feeding is less stressful than 
bottle feeding. 

Consider the  following:

No preparing a bottle for the 3am feeding.  Instead,  breast milk is ready to 
go at anytime.

Formula can be very  tempermental.  It needs to be mixed properly, stored 
properly and used  within 24 hours.  With breast milk, there is no mixing and 
therefore no  room for error.  It has it's own storage containers and has no 
expiration  date.

Breast milk is also portable.  Where ever you and baby go so  does your 
feeding source.  Not so with formula.  Talk about  stress!  Who wants to have to 
remember sterilized bottles, formula  etc.

Additional benefits included:

More rapid weight loss  immediately following birth.

And it is FREE!

Something that most  New Yorkers love and you failed to mention.  In fact if 
you think about it,  the free formula once given out is free only once.  Then 
you need to BUY IT  all the time.

Look, I am not advocating breast-feeding your child until  they go to 
Kindergarten.  But, the first three months are crucial and the  most important.

If you are looking for a story here, I would suggest you  write about the 
intolerence within corporate America and other organizations to  provide proper 
areas to pump, time to pump and incentives to mom's to breast  feed.

You opinion leads me to believe you were being paid by Mead-Johnson  to write 
this article.

Respectfully yours,

Martha  Riley




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