It is a well known fact that when a baby is first born it should begin breastfeeding because of all the nutrients the baby needs to growth healthy in the first months of life. Yet, what if breastfeeding was not an option for babies? What about poverty stricken countries where basic nutrients run scarce, and are very rare. It is so essential for a new born to have these nutrients, and breast feeding can be seen as a necessity for babies growing up in a poverty stricken environment.

Babies born within an impoverished environment usually lack the basic nutrients to grow and function properly, especially in the crucial years leading up to adolescence. Also, why are more and more women switching to bottled fed from breast fed? Based on an article written by Jacqueline Wolf, “Women initiated the move from breast to bottle as they embraced complex social, cultural, economic, and intellectual change concomitant with urbanization..” (Wolf). Another factor that comes into play is the introduction to baby formula in the 19th century. Also, the change of a woman’s role in society from housewife to the work force could have a lot to do with the fact that women don’t have time to breastfeed.

According to Wolf, babies were dying from diarrhea and not even making it to their first birthdays due to the lack of nutrients through milk they were being deprived of. For example babies in Chicago during the late 19th century and early 20th century had a high death rate because of the amount of poverty, and food stock available to families during that time (Wolf). Another issue was that mother’s worried that their own milk wasn’t even “good enough” or that pollutants and chemicals from the air or from food they ate would cause the child to be ill? In my opinion, the social world and advertisement seems to be the issue here. People take what they hear from other people or the media