Save the Children asking for warning labels on formula tin

[Natsku]

Thats good to know that they have lots of other recommendations too, hope they work and at least some babies get saved.

 

[BlueHadeda]

I live in a 3rd world country, and honestly, people seem to concentrate way too much about "dirty" water being the culprit. Most of our people has access to clean drinking water. And clinics showing them how to mix formula. Not all third world countries live on dirty water and no education (on formula).

The thing in our country is that the infant mortality rate is way higher than it should be, and part of it has been blamed on mothers choosing to formula feed rather than breastfeed (because formula was made out to be as good as breastfeeding). It's just a fact that when you have 1000 new mothers who uses formula, and you compare it to a 1000 new mothers who breastfeed, that a bigger percentage of those babies that got formula will be admitted to hospital for diseases during their first 5 years of life, and more of them will die. So in a drive to get our infant mortality rate down, breastfeeding is promoted and encouraged much more the past 5 years. They even went as far as stopping the practice of giving formula at clinics without a prescription from a peadiatrician.

 

[Lina]

I live in a 3rd world country, and honestly, people seem to concentrate way too much about "dirty" water being the culprit. Most of our people has access to clean drinking water. And clinics showing them how to mix formula. Not all third world countries live on dirty water and no education (on formula).

The thing in our country is that the infant mortality rate is way higher than it should be, and part of it has been blamed on mothers choosing to formula feed rather than breastfeed (because formula was made out to be as good as breastfeeding). It's just a fact that when you have 1000 new mothers who uses formula, and you compare it to a 1000 new mothers who breastfeed, that a bigger percentage of those babies that got formula will be admitted to hospital for diseases during their first 5 years of life, and more of them will die. So in a drive to get our infant mortality rate down, breastfeeding is promoted and encouraged much more the past 5 years. They even went as far as stopping the practice of giving formula at clinics without a prescription from a peadiatrician.

I agree, for some people 3rd world seems to conjure disease ridden, barefoot people, which just isn't true. If anything there isn't this bf v ff debate and what is best, instinctively people already accept the former is best as that's all they know; off course until a white man comes along who is seeking big margins to exploit the minority, not very different here; given we have people here who believe ff is better/equivalent.