[cjCamel]

No-one on this thread has mentioned breast feeding. The WHO recommends exclusively breast feeding a child for 6 months, and to continue until they are at least 2 years old. I understand that this is not possible or desirable for many parents, but the choice to do so should be available.

No surprise that even the most socially responsible companies in the US are skewed towards the extreme low end of parental leave allowance relative to other countries.

US employment law doesn't incentivise long term employment full stop, so little wonder some on here find it hard to understand why it is worth paying employees to come back.

[agensaequivocum]

There is nothing wrong with bottle feeding. Some children do not breast feed well, some do. You should just go with what works.

[kazinator]

Formula can be consistently made. The "breast milk is best" argument depends on cherry-picked breast milk.

Is it still better than formula if Mom drinks or has some health problem? Stuff passes into breast milk. If Mom takes an ibuprofen, into the breast milk it goes.

Can HIV pass through breast milk? No clear answer:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8826332

If you look at the scientific arguments about how breast milk is better, they revolve around hair-splitting. Like increased risk of necrotising enterocolitis in pre-term babies.