Joyce is rightly shocked by the bottle feeding 'advantages'. The
leaflet is totally non-evidence based and subjective and in some
cases untrue...and mostly irrelevant.

For instance

>
>"What are the benefits of bottle feeding?
>
>Bottle feeding makes it easy for you to know how much milk your baby is
>getting. You will be able to easily see how much milk your baby is drinking
>by looking at the bottle markings.

'And,' I would say, like my teenagers when wanting to be sarcastic,
'your point is......? '

If we needed to know how much milk the baby is getting, we'd have
evolved with calibrated breasts...with an instant fat-o-meter
gadgetty-thing attached to each side,  so we could do a calorie count
of what came out ('cos, as these folk clearly don't know, size (or
volume) isn't everything).

We don't have any of this.

So what's the betting we just don't need to know?

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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