Ignorance of whom? This notion of a newborn baby immediately latching onto their mother and having a drink right after birth simply is a fantasy in the overwhelming vast majority of cases. There is a reason why humans have been supplementing breast milk for thousands of years.
I must know a whole heckuva lot of exceptions. And I must have birthed 10 exceptional children. I have ONE child who had formula. ONE. And that was a month after she was born. My mother must’ve birthed a lot of exceptions. And my grandmothers. And great-grandmothers. Now, on hubby’s side, things were different. My m-i-l was not interested in breastfeeding. I haven’t noticed any unusual health problems in hubby or his siblings. His maternal grandmother had a hard time breastfeeding her second child. She used formula over 60 years ago.
I was talking about replies from pro-breastfeeding folks as much as the pro-formula folks.