Washington - Hello, my name is Darlena Cunha, and I was a formula feeder. The day I bought my first can marked a parenting low for me. When I was pregnant, I read books and parenting websites that extolled the virtue of breast milk. Good mothers, I learned, breastfeed. Lazy mothers don't. Yet here I was, giving up. But my kids were hungry. And no matter what I did, they wouldn't latch. We'd all end up frustrated, exhausted and crying. They took bottles of pumped milk, but they weren't getting enough. At a month, my babies were just six pounds, and they weren't gaining weight. So we switched to formula. Taking out that bottle in the mall earned me scornful glances from other mothers. One...
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