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> I find this quote from one of the authors of the paper who says "In our nursery, we spend countless hours trying to talk moms OUT of giving formula".   I might mention the anti-breastfeeding existance of a 'nursery' here! No nursery might just help them do their job of reducing formula supplementation, who knows? :)  Whatever their personal experience,  the fact remains there is no strict stance on formula supplementation that I can see anywhere in the UK or the US. Clearly, their hours in the nursery talking to mothers don't work - the 'relaxed' stance on formula supplementation may come from mothers or from HCPs, but it's certainly very relaxed.
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As an aside but tangentally related. I was recently in Christchurch New Zealand to speak at a conference (hi to all LLLNZ members I met!) and was collecting as many experiences of infant feeding in the post 2011 earthquake as I could. One interesting story was that midwives noticed that mother's milk was "coming in" earlier than usual. They attributed this to the fact that mothers did not let their babies out of their arms at any time because they never knew when the next aftershock would occur. Rooming is is routine in NZ but it seems that closer contact than the usual in the post earthquake aftermath had an impact on the timing of onset of copious lactation.

Karleen Gribble
Australia

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