Mayor Bloomberg pushing NYC hospitals to hide baby formula behind locked doors so more new moms will breast-feed

◼ While breast-feeding activists applaud the move, bottle-feeding moms are bristling at the latest lactation lecture. - Mary Kay Linge/NY Post

“If they put pressure on me, I would get annoyed,” said Lynn Sidnam, a Staten Island mother of two formula-fed girls, ages 4 months and 9 years. “It’s for me to choose.”

Under Latch On NYC, new mothers who want formula won’t be denied it, but hospitals will keep infant formula in out-of-the-way secure storerooms or in locked boxes like those used to dispense and track medications.