From People.com, MOM SAYS PRESSURE TO BREASTFEED LED TO ACCIDENTALLY STARVING HER INFANT SON: ‘WE WERE SO BRAINWASHED’

Just 19 days after giving birth to a healthy baby boy, Jillian Johnson lost her son Landon due to accidental starvation.

“If I had given him just one bottle, he would still be alive,” Johnson writes in a blog post for the non-profit organization Fed Is Best. “If only I could go back in time.”

Fed is Best advocates for safe breastfeeding — including supplementing with formula when medically necessary or strictly formula feeding for those who want or need to — in response to the tragic stories of mothers accidentally starving their babies, according to co-founders Jody Segrave-Daily RN, and Dr. Christie Del Castillo-Hegyi.

Read more at People.com.

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