Jeanne notes,

<< If mothers who choose to bottle feed are given a can of powdered formula,
and
 taught how to use it in the hospital, it will take more time for the nurses
 than normal breastfeeding.  This might encourage nurses to view breastfeeding
 as the easier choice from their perspective.  For the mothers, we reduce the
 risk of sending them home unable to properly prepare infant formula for their
 babies.  If bottle feeding weren't so easy to do in the hospital, maybe they
 would put a little more effort into learning to breastfeed.
  >>

I still maintain if we, as HCPs, taught moms about bottle feeding as it SHOULD
be taught, more moms would breastfeed.  Somewhere in the archives are my
musings on what need to be taught.  You can also get a fairly succinct article
on teaching formula feeding in the newsletter from the Missouri Dept of Health
(March issue), or the March issue of Clinical Issues in Lactation.

I think we do have a responsibility to teach formula feeding correctly -- if
for no other reason than to protect the health as much as humanly possible if
mom refuses to breastfeed, of the next generation.

Jan B - in Wheaton, where it can't decide if it should continue raining, and
it is cold.  Again.