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Decide how you feed your baby, breast or bottle feeding?

At present, the decision to breastfeed their babies is the most chosen by the mothers and the most recommended by physicians and midwives. However, there are mothers by choice or inability to breast-feed, decide to feed their babies through artificial feeding. This option can generate a feeling of guilt because of social pressure.

Despite the medical and social recommendations, the breastfeeding rate decision is up to parents.

A recent book, published by the French philosopher Elizabeth Badinter, opened a major controversy between advocates of breastfeeding. This book review the great pressure he is under a mother when feeding your baby, as the current social trend favors breastfeeding. That is why, according to the philosopher, the mother can become a “slave of his own children.”

Currently there is a strong inclination for natural breeding unconditionally defends breastfeeding. Breast milk is considered by doctors and pediatricians the perfect food for newborn babies, providing the necessary nutrients and immunological properties for proper development.

In addition, the World Health Organization (WHO) considers that breast milk has to be the only food you should take the baby until six months, it is recommended to combine it with other foods to two years.

It is for these reasons that many organizations like Alba who advocate breastfeeding breastfeeding and create support groups and counseling to learn to breast.

However, there are mothers by choice or inability to give chest, opt for artificial feeding. According to these women, to choose this option generates a rejection of them by family, friends and health. They may even feel judged and ill-informed, since the heavy emphasis that is generated when explaining how to give chest, is not included when explaining how to take the bottle.

This situation, according to psychologist Gemma Canovas, can generate anxiety and guilt in the mother. That is why every mother has to decide freely how to feed your baby.