As per recent research by the doctors bottle feeding is really harmful for the babies. Mother’s cannot be replaced by any other factory prepared milk. The formula milk might contain all the vitamins or the nutrition but still it has many disadvantages as well. Major problem of bottle feeding is that babies suffer from many types of illness such as chest infection, diarrhea, chest infection etc. Various researches has been done to find out the difference between the breast-fed child and the bottle-fed child and it has been found that bottle-fed risk more for obesity than breast-fed which result in many diseases in adult.
At the same time it is difficult to make formula milk as you make go wrong with the concentration of the powdered milk, making it too strong or mild. One of the major disadvantage of the bottle- feeding is that the baby can miss out the important nutrients and hormones contains in the mother’s milk for it’s growth. Mother’s milk also contains various antibodies which help in protecting the child from various harmful diseases. Disadvantages of bottle feeding are many more and many researchers are working to find out it others disadvantages.