Dr. Rebekah Diamond: I'm a pediatrician, and even I was convinced formula was the enemy. - NBCNewsTHINK
More often than not, introducing some amount of formula is the only way to keep infants healthy and happy enough that they can actually learn how to breastfeed. And there are times when aown postpartum needs — troubleshooting why it’s painful when the baby latches on to her breast, or getting enough rest to help with physical and emotional postpartum healing — make bottle feeding a breast-milk-promoting intervention.
Yet too many moms equate using formula with failure. I remember one mother I worked with whose daughter was born premature and couldn’t get the hang of latching even after weeks of work with a skilled lactation consultant. She pumped every three hours , causing prolonged exhaustion that made it impossible to bond with her newborn, let alone engage in the treatment she urgently needed for her emerging postpartum depression and anxiety.
The stigma against formula is so deep-seated that I felt it myself when I gave birth, despite all the information to the contrary at my disposal. I was completely committed to exclusive breastfeeding, but a variety of factors — my daughter’s jaundice and low sugars, my relatively low milk supply, her prematurity and her struggle with latching — took exclusive breastfeeding off the table.
Like so many mothers, I cried needlessly when combined breast and formula feeding became our necessary reality. Even as a pediatrician, a part of me had been convinced that formula was the enemy. As a result, these pressures worsened my own postpartum depression and anxiety.
On top of everyday breastfeeding struggles back then, mothers frequently died or became critically ill during childbirth. If other lactating community members didn’t step in infants died without a safe, alternative source of nutrition. Some people made their own formula to fill the gap, which sometimes worked but was
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