In the perpetual debate over breast-feeding, breast-feeding advocates make one point over and over: Breast-feeding costs a lot less than formula. Considering how much money new parents find themselves spending — baby furniture and clothes! medical bills! a higher rent or mortgage payment so baby can have her own room! — the idea of an almost-free food source is very appealing. In a narrow sense, it's true that breast-feeding is inexpensive. But that's only true if you assume your time has no value. Once you take into account the hundreds of hours the average breast-feeding mother spends nursing and pumping, breast-feeding doesn't seem so affordable after all. This doesn't mean breast-feeding...
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