Charities have warned parents are watering down infant formula and feeding their babies porridge instead because they can’t afford it.
Parents are watering down infant formula and feeding their babies porridge instead because they can’t afford it, charities have warned.
Currently, Healthy Start vouchers provide pregnant women and new mothers with £8.50 a week to buy nutritious food. NHS guidance recommends babies are exclusively breastfed for their first year, but figures suggest the majority of babies are partially or fully formula fed by the time they are six to eight weeks old.
Meanwhile, foodbanks are getting more and more referrals for formula milk, but they currently have policies in place preventing them handing it out.
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