Ok, US government, then stop rewarding these low income welfare recipients with free formula. Most of them don’t work, and yet choose NOT to breastfeed. That is wrong. We are stuck with millions of dollars spent on WIC to pay for the formula, which in turn results in far more visits to the doctors for digestive and respiratory issues. I have worked in pediatrics and see it all day long ...it is not 10 days after delivery before they are back in the dr’s office with a baby who can’t tolerate various formulas, is backed up, screaming and constipated, and THEN they are putting it on the SUPER EXPENSIVE Nutramigen which costs everyone even more and tastes horrible.
If you are going to do anything with the child and not work, at least breastfeed. Would also help get the weight off a lot of these mothers, as well as anyone else who is concerned about post partum weight gain.
And we’re on the hook for the Medicaid costs associated with the extra doctor’s visits as well.