Wide circulation of the Yale study on the cost of breastfeeding could serve
to present yet one more challenge to breastfeeding. What about the cost of
formula feeding? It is not just the $2000 in the cost of formula. How about
the cost of lost days from work to care for a sick child, the cost of
doctor visits, medications, hospitalization, medical equipment,
specialists, dental care, etc? The burden of excess illness in
formula-fed infants and children is a known entity yet seldom factored into
the cost of not breastfeeding.

Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC

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