Breastfeeding: the dogma, the evidence and the lived experience

In Facebook communities, on Instagram, in mommy blogs, mothers show off about how long they breastfed for, or the exclusivity of it: the ‘F’ word in these communities is Formula, and you’d think it was rat poison the way they talk about it, rather than a nutritionally-complete alternative to breastmilk that has been developed over decades of scientific research. … Continue readingBreastfeeding: the dogma, the evidence and the lived experience