r/FormulaFeeders Mar 25 '26

Support Needed / Guilt Related 🧸 Newborn feeding instructions from 1958

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u/New_Enthusiasm_7578 Mar 25 '26

I agree, I'm formula feeding my baby too. I just don't agree with this comment saying that people think breast is best because formulas in the past weren't that good. Because breast is better than the formula from 2026 too, it's printed on my formula package🫠

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u/coolbandshirt Mar 25 '26

Pretty sure they are required to put that on the label

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u/New_Enthusiasm_7578 Mar 25 '26

Why

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u/damnedpiccolo Mar 25 '26

Because of nestle who got loads of people using formula through promoting samples and then when their breast milk dried up they couldnt afford the formula.

And because of Lactivism. Breastfeeding is a huge industry with a completely captive audience. Unless you are in the position where you are financially and physically able to exclusively nurse your child from the breast, with no supply/latch issues etc the industry can make literal thousands from selling breast pumping products and supplements etc that desperate mothers will shell out ridiculous amounts of money on because they are told that if they do not choose breast milk then it is a moral failing on their part and that they are a bad parent.