In Reply to: Sounds like your posted by Smithy on Wednesday, 4. August 2010 at 14:45 Bali Time:
Whats wrong with you?
Breast feeding is the most natural way for a Mumma to feed her baby. It's the best way if possible, imaginable. It is the most beautiful, wonderful, way for a baby to get nurishment.
Why feed a baby from a bottle if breast milk is available? It has the natural antibodies for the babe to fight off bigger people diseases. Its full of nourishment, the right temperature, its on 'tap' and sterile.
You wait until, if you are fortunate enough, to enjoy the beauty of your wife or daughter feeding the most precious gift on earth, a new baby.
A baby can be breast fed most discretly, no need to show the swollen boobs, but then I guess many blokes would love to check them out if given the opportunity!
Balinese women are actullay going through a stage of thinking its best to westernise and bottle feed. The Ubud birthing centre is trying to encourage Balinese women to breast feed. Many are preferring to bottle feed, but since the formula is expensive, they are using less powder than recommended. Babies are suffering from malnutrition. They are not sterilising bottles and treated as necessary. Many babies who are bottle fed are dying at a young age.
The Australian Government has provided funding to produce a booklet for Balinese to encourage them to breast feed.