It is no secret that breastfeeding is the gold standard of infant feeding. Nevertheless, when medical officer Dr Seri Suniza Sufian was pregnant with her first baby, she wondered what kind of milk would she give to her child.
“I actually had the cheek to think of what milk I was going to give this baby inside my womb,” said Dr Seri, who is now a mother of four fully breastfed children and a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology.
Speaking on breastfeeding and women’s reproductive health at the Working Women and Breastfeeding forum recently, she recounted her meeting with Breastfeeding Information Bureau President Norjinah Moin, who asked her point blank: “Why do you want to give your child powdered milk or formula?”
