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Article: Bottle-feed mothers made to feel 'unfit.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2005
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WOMEN who choose to bottle-feed their baby are made to feel like second-rate parents by campaigns stating 'breast is best', researchers said today.
A study found that one in 10 mothers felt a sense of failure, guilt and uncertainty about not breast-feeding after intending to breastfeed but their plans not working out.
Many women also worry about what their health visitor or midwife might say to them, as well as being concerned about how formula milk will affect their baby's health.
Professor Frank Furedi and Dr Ellie Lee, from the University of Kent, looked at women's feelings on breastfeeding, with interviews with mothers ...