What about the best milk that is free? You know, the one that comes from mother's breast?
They try to start kids on the "American diet of garbage" on the first day!
I had a terrible experience in the hospital when I had my kid 16 years ago. They tried to push formula so hard. They get paid to do just that. It is big business. They want people to get hooked on it and will take the baby for blood work to return with a bottle that they already started feeding them. One way they use is to tell you that you don't have to feed the baby as often and that it keeps them calmer for longer. While this may be true, it is not a good idea to start your kid on a path for diabetes, inflammation, obesity, etc. If you have no valid issues that prevent you from nursing.
They push it by lying about nutrition, giving free formula, vouchers for $300. worth, and even checks. I hope that it is not as bad as it was and that all hospitals do not do this, but the one I was at certainly did.
I warned them several times not to do that to my kid and they didn't, but they bothered us with it several times a day.
My hospital roomate was not so lucky, they kept trying to take her son cause he was fussy and grandma wasn't having it. They were condescending and pulled all kinds of psychological tactics to make that woman feel like a bad mother when she repeatedly insisted that she wanted to nurse her own baby. When grandma went to eat, they took the baby to the nursery and gave him a bottle against mother's and grandma's wishes. It was a nightmare and it stresses us all out. I was crying and my mother was pissed off and it wasnt ecen our family. The grandma was so pissed when she returned and raised hell. Good for her!
That was the one time in my life that I feel that the "race card" was well played. It was the only thing that got them to leave that family the hell alone about the stupid formula.
Oh hell no.
They are not doing it as a service to their consumers for their health. Just like they are not planning to scan all of their consumer's files to look for child abuse.