Sir, Breast-feeding (times 2, Sept 29) is honed by evolution to be the healthiest way to nurture the human baby, and it is now more than three years since the Department of Health’s policy followed World Health Organisation research, showing that babies are healthiest fed on milk alone for the first six months of life.
The lack of breast-feeding in the face of a barrage of formula advertising is causing the deaths of 1.5 million babies worldwide.
A woman is no more likely to be physically unable to breast-feed than she is to be physically unable to see or hear. Society, however, can make her unable to breast-feed. This is done by undermining her confidence with misleading information, and treating breast-feeding as permissible only in private.
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