Cancun, formula is a technology. It no more violates the "rules of nature" than using a car instead of walking, or buying food at the market instead of hunting and gathering, or using the computer that you are using rather than carving drawings onto cave walls.

There isn't anything inherently superior about things because they are "natural". Arsenic is "natural". Livesaving pharmaceuticals are "artificial".

And there certainly isn't anything superior about staying home and being a full-time mother vs. working to pay the bills, remain financially independent, and/or putting money away that might pay for things that one's child might need down the line.

You are confusing your aesthetic preferences-- which are perfectly fine for you but might not work for others-- with a mandate from Nature or God that one is not at liberty to disobey.

Further, note how your argument has drifted away from safety. This is what I was talking about when I said that there was so much bound up in this debate. People who believe strongly about breastfeeding feel much deeper connections to the practice than just that it might prevent an ear infection or two. Rather, formula symbolizes things about modern society that breastfeeding advocates don't like.