The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that a lot of women have been renouncing breastfeeding and were initiating with formula even before six months. The health authorities suggest that the infants should be given the breastfeed until they were old enough to have something solid.

The reports of CDC blamed a few hospital authorities for not encouraging and advising the mothers to go for breastfeeding.

However, the staff members of Utah hospitals have been advising and counseling the new mothers regarding benefits of breastfeed for them and their children. The staff keeps a track on the mothers who were willing to breastfeed their children.

Payson Mountain View Hospital Labor and Delivery Director, Helen Haney stated that breastfeeding develops a bonding between a child and his mother. The mothers loose calories and it is not expensive as formula. Also, the Children are considerably less likely to experience childhood obesity. “They also are less likely to develop food allergies and get increased natural immunity to many diseases from the contents of breast milk”, Haney said.

Mountain View and Timpanogos Regional hospitals have stopped providing formula in the gift bags they give to mothers after the delivery. Also, they do not suggest formula for babies unless it's needed.