With breast feeding rates low in Australia, Australian experts have come up with a recommendation to increase these rates of breast feeding but not everyone agrees.
While there are many benefits to breast feeding your infant it is not always necessarily the best option.
In a bid to increase breast feeding rates in Australia experts have suggested that infant formula be available through prescription only. That includes going to the doctors getting a prescription then going to the local pharmacist and getting the formula made up.
Experts also go as far as saying that formula manufactures should also be banned from marketing their products to the public. They claim that new parents believe that if they try to breast feed and if they can