First NYC banned cigarettes, then trans fats and now they are banning baby formula. That’s right, they want all mothers to use breast milk on their babies.

First they moved against smoking, and then trans fats. Now, city health officials are taking on the bottle — as in a baby’s bottle.

On Tuesday they announced a new campaign to promote breastfeeding instead of using formula.

Baby bottles beware. City hospitals don’t want you around. Instead, they want infants to eat at Mom’s instead.

“We’re producing it. Why not give it to the baby,” new mother Mashia Nelson said.

The push toward breastfeeding means a ban on freebie formula when you leave the hospital.

“It was just the diaper bag and formula information and formula and we don’t do that here anymore,” Nelson said.

Let me state upfront I was a bottle mother as breastfeeding didn’t appeal to me and the doctor told me either it did or it didn’t.

I also know breastfeeding is supposed to be better for the baby, and the bonding is tighter. It’s just that milk leaking out of me at strange times wasn’t what I pictured as being what I wanted.

If a mother wants to breast feed, I admire her, but I don’t condemn those who prefer not to breastfeed and no city should make it difficult for a mother to choose how to feed her baby.

The formula has vitamins in it too. What if the mother is a drug addict? Do you want that going into the baby? What if she’s not eating properly? Do you want to deprive the baby of essential vitamins and nutrients to satisfy your sense of power over new mothers?

I say let the mothers decide and keep the city out of their business.