Wow. Intrusive.

Venezuela is considering banning the sale of bottles and formula in an effort to give families no choice but to breastfeed their babies.

Full disclosure: I breastfed both of my children.  The imp nursed until he was eighteen months, and I'm working on finishing weaning the pixie.  Both kids are very rarely sick, are towards the top percentiles in height (but not in weight), and both kids are very secure and happy.  Neither child had formula (except for once in the hospital when the imp's nurse didn't bother to check the freezer before fixing his syringe full of food to go through the feeding tube through his nose--and happened to trigger his awful acid reflux).  I believe breastfeeding is the best possible way to take care of a child.

That said...I do not see exactly how it's the government's--any government's--business how a mother takes care of her baby.  I don't understand how it's in a baby's best interests for the government to require a doctor's note for Mama to be permitted to buy bottles and formula.  How long will that take for a mother whose milk doesn't come in properly (rare, but they exist)?  How long will a baby have to go hungry?

This is nothing more than government overreach.