It is commonly known that there is wide publicity and propaganda for the enlargement of bottle-feeding in most of the developing countries of the world. Unlike in developing countries, life in the developed countries is more complex, the standard of living is high, and the feeling of solidarity is less prevalent. The developed countries have achieved the kind of modernisation where human life has changed from homogeneity to hetrogeneity and from solidarity to isolationism.
In Nepali society, breast feeding in one way or another, has wider social-religious explanations, attitudes, norms and values by which the continuity of breast feeding is stressed and exhibited. Moreover, bottle-feeding to Nepali children may not be well-suited so far as the socio-economic framework is concerned. Because of the poor economic status, people cannot afford the high price of bottle-feeding in Nepal, but it is gaining ground only among some of the affluent families in the form of fun and fashion and in some cases it has become a necessity. But so far as rural areas are concerned, it can be fairly said that most of the mothers of rural Nepal have not even heard about bottle-feeding practices.
The author argues that breast feeding is more economical, natural and socially accepted among Nepali mothers.
