Many of you will remember the tragic story of the babies who drank the formula tainted with melamine in China last year. I wrote about it here.
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I believe that the UK society isn’t geared up for breastfeeding, certainly not past the first few weeks, and I think that it’s criminal that 90% of women who stop breastfeeding in the first six weeks of their baby’s life do so against their wishes. The fact that only 1 in 4 babies is having any breastmilk at all at six months and more than 90% of babies have formula at one stage or another also demonstrates how ingrained giving formula is.
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A microscopic glimmer of positive out of the Chinese milk tragedy… But it’s not just a Chinese thing - whilst other countries don’t tend to put melamine in their milk, don’t imagine for one moment that formula is 100% safe, wherever in the world you are.
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