Guilt-free Bottle Feeding: Why Your Formula-Fed Baby Can Be Happy, Healthy and Smart - Softcover

Morris, Madeleine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908281774 ISBN 13: 9781908281777

Publisher: White Ladder, 2022

Synopsis

You are not a bad mother if you can’t breastfeed.

For decades mums have been told that ‘breast is best’, that breastfeeding is the single-most important thing we can do for our children.  Despite this huge pressure on modern mums, the vast majority of us end up using formula.  And we feel guilty.

In Guilt-Free Bottle Feeding award-winning journalist Madeleine Morris and paediatrician Dr Sasha Howard challenge the simplistic message of ‘breast is best’, revealing what everybody knows, but nobody says out loud – that bottle fed babies can grow up to be perfectly happy, healthy and smart. 

With a thorough yet accessible analysis of health science, parenting sociology and the modern media, the authors provide a balanced, much-needed and long-overdue voice, showing mothers who don’t exclusively breastfeed why they are not failures.

A mix of political and practical, Guilt-Free Bottle-Feeding also offers comprehensive advice on feeding, including:

• Choosing a formula, and choosing a bottle


• Sterilising and preparing a feed


• How to promote bonding while bottle-feeding 


• Moving from breast to bottle, and mixed feeding

In an era where the pressure on mums is greater than ever before, Guilt-Free Bottle Feeding resets the conversation around infant feeding, supporting all families regardless of how they feed their babies. 

This is not an anti-breastfeeding book. This is an anti-guilt book.

 www.guiltfreebottlefeeding.com

About this title

About the Author

Author Madeleine Morris is an award-winning former BBC journalist, recently writing for The Times on the emerging research that pressure to breastfeed is contributing to post-natal depression.

From the Back Cover

You are not a bad mother if you can't breastfeed.

For decades mums have been told that 'breast is best', that breastfeeding is the single-most important thing we can do for our children. Despite this huge pressure on modern mums, the vast majority of us end up using formula. And we feel guilty.

In Guilt-Free Bottle Feeding award-winning journalist Madeleine Morris and paediatrician Dr Sasha Howard challenge the simplistic message of 'breast is best', revealing what everybody knows, but nobody says out loud - that bottle fed babies can grow up to be perfectly happy, healthy and smart.

With a thorough yet accessible analysis of health science, parenting sociology and the modern media, the authors provide a balanced, much-needed and long-overdue voice, showing mothers who don't exclusively breastfeed why they are not failures.

A mix of political and practical, Guilt-Free Bottle-Feeding also offers comprehensive advice on feeding, including:

- Choosing a formula, and choosing a bottle

- Sterilising and preparing a feed

- How to promote bonding while bottle-feeding

* Moving from breast to bottle, and mixed feeding

In an era where the pressure on mums is greater than ever before, Guilt-Free Bottle Feeding resets the conversation around infant feeding, supporting all families regardless of how they feed their babies.

This is not an anti-breastfeeding book. This is an anti-guilt book.

www.guiltfreebottlefeeding.com

Madeleine Morris is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, who has reported from more than 20 countries for the BBC. She has written for The Times, Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald and the Age.

Dr Sasha Howard is a paediatrician with a special interest in paediatric endocrinology. She is the author of several peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters and has presented her academic work internationally.

Edition details

• Publisher: White Ladder
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908281774
• ISBN 13: 9781908281777
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240