By the time 9-pound Campbell Bundza debuted at Halifax Medical Center on Monday, her parents had received mountains of information about how feeding from her mother's breast is best -- along with a stockpile of free infant formula.
Janet Bundza said boxes of complimentary infant formula came to her Port Orange home after she signed up for Publix Supermarkets' Baby Club. She collected more free formula samples when she went to Lamaze classes at the hospital.
"From the research I've read, breast-feeding has benefits for her and for me, so I thought it'd be the way to go," said Bundza, 31, as her first child slept cradled in her arms.
But she also read that breast-feeding doesn't work for everyone.
"I had a question in my mind," Bundza said. "So I thought I'd take it (the formula) as a just-in-case kind of thing."
Sending new mothers home with free infant formula -- practiced to some degree at all of the area's birthing hospitals -- has become more controversial as the benefits of breast-feeding have become more incontrovertible.
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