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Content taken from pages 67-69 of The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts are Bad for Business In the 1860s, a German chemist, Justus von Liebig* (1803-1873) often called ‘the father of modern nutrition’ invented the perfect infant food’. It was made of wheat flour, cows’ milk, malt flour and bicarbonate of potash. Though patented, commercialised and delivered in liquid form, it did not sell well. A powdered form was then developed with some of thecontinue reading…

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insufficient milk supply

Even before I had given birth, I was told that I would have to give my baby formula because I would have an insufficient milk supply. This was from a mother who hadn’t even breastfed, and she was going off the story that her granddaughter had been breastfed, but her mother had an insufficient milk supply. That might have happened in her case, but was she feeding the baby in the night frequently etc, ascontinue reading…

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