“Formula feed until milk comes in” — Examples of bad breastfeeding advice often given to new parents

Toni Harman
5 min readJan 23, 2024

Say what? Some of the worst breastfeeding advice given to parents from clinicians… advice that potentially could have damaging consequences for a child’s long-term health.

“Formula feed until milk comes in” — Questionable breastfeeding advice often given to new parents.
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How can we expect parents to successfully breastfeed when they are frequently given bad breastfeeding advice by clinicians?

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Toni Harman

I help parents and health professionals better understand the science of pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and the microbiome. https://linktr.ee/toniharman