If you have kids, bottle vs breast-feeding becomes a topic of conversation. if you talk with your parents during this, it will come up.
I wonder about breast-feeding going in and out of vogue. I remember my mom telling me that very few people were doing it in the 60s/70 when she had my brother and me (other than hippies). maybe it was an offshoot of how conservative the 50s were?
my mom said the doctors all said it was healthier to bottle feed
that sounds like something your mom would say.
(that started off as something "my mom probably said", but I couldn't resist.)
also- our pediatrician, when asked if it mattered, said he couldn't tell breast-fed babies from bottle fed. obviously, that's purely from a health/physical-development stand-point.