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breast milk is a 100x better than formula...and babies who are breastfed don't have that nasty formula sour stench from burping up the unnatural additives/preservatives that their tummies cannot take. Sure, it may be time consuming and breastfed babies eat more often...but being a parent is time-consuming...and the bond of breastfeeding is a very strong one. Even if you are not a stay at home mom, breastfeeding can still be mastered once you get a schedule down, just like any other schedule regarding an infant.
My friend nursed her baby for 12 weeks and when she went back to work, she pumped her breastmilk and dropped bottles off with the baby at daycare so the baby still could receive breastmilk via bottle. she ended up supplying so much breastmilk, that there always was backup in the freezer (that is good for weeks) so when the baby started getting more hungry, there was no need for panic. she ended up breastfeeding for 9 months until the problem of teeth came into the mix.
Sure you can hold a baby close while bottle-feeding...but it is obviously not the same as breast feeding. When you breastfeed, the baby obviously smells its mother and the baby also smells when a woman's milk "comes in" and that makes the baby know it is supper time...and the baby actually becomes social and much more relaxed when being nursed by his/her mother. I truly believe babies are meant to be breastfed...even when an infant is placed on the stomach of a mother, the baby instinctively creeps towards the breast to nurse without any physical placement of the baby towards the nipple. It is FASCINATING stuff.
Plus...as far as children in this day and age with all the allergies and ear infections...one has to wonder what is causing all of these problems in little ones. When someone tells me the frustration of a baby who has had 5 ear infections in a year, I always ask "did you breastfeed?" this is, of course, just my opinion and I have always been at odds with my sister because she refused to breastfeed because she felt weird.
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