Breast or Bottle

There is likely nothing more heated than general policy questions about raising children and keeping them healthy. Everyone who has children has a stake in such debates. Among the most heated of these debates has to be whether it is preferable to breast or bottle feed.

There are more than two sides to this debate. There are breastfeeding activists, for whom any formula feeding is evil. There are women who feed their babies formula for convenience, and are fine with that. There are women who feed their babies formula for lifesaving reasons, because they are unable to feed their babies otherwise. There are women who feed their babies for convenience, but cannot face that. Some of these women are pretty defensive about formula, and mixing them with the breastfeeding activists can be volatile.

Steph strikes the right balance, I think. Of course, I would say that, because she is my wife and these decisions involved me. That said, life isn't fair, and it is unalterably true that the life of an infant depends upon his mother, and my role in these decisions was decidedly minor. So go read Steph's article.