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Article: HEALTH WATCH: Bottle-feed mothers made to feel failures.(Features)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 5, 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 yesterday.
A study found that one in 10 mothers felt a sense of failure, guilt and uncertainty about not breastfeeding 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 ...