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I'm currently pregnant with my first child and I'm shocked at the amount of prejudice against bottle feeding. True, breast milk has the vitamins and antibodies which are best for your baby in the early months, but formula milk has been manufactured to be as close as possible to breast milk nowadays. I think it's disgusting that women are put under so much pressure to breastfeed, and made to feel like bad mothers if they don't.
What these 'Breast is Best' advocates sometimes forget is that not every woman wants to, or even CAN breastfeed. Why should you be made to feel guilty if you can't? As if having a newborn isn't stressful and emotional enough, you have to put up with all these supercilious people lecturing you about how bad a mother you are because you're not breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding - a woman should be able to choose
The authorities exacerbate this; banning any kind of advertising or offers on baby milk other than follow-up milk just gives these 'Breast is Best' fanatics more fuel for their arguments. In this day and age, a woman should be able to choose, guilt-free, how she plans to feed her babies. Nobody else, not even the authorities, should have a say in that.
I'm undecided whether I'm going to try breastfeeding myself, as (without going into too much details) I know it would cause me great pain and discomfort. I'm worried that if I face pain each time I feed, I'd end up resenting the feeding altogether and this would do more harm to the baby than a bottle of formula ever could. But rest assured, if anyone tries to tell me I'm a bad mother or that my child would suffer as a result of being fed on formula, I'll give them a piece of my mind...
By: Mallory
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Breastfed my son for first year by the way, didn't breastfeed daughter past first day!! Meh, they were both healthy anyways.
Posted on 3/4/2009 3:21:59 PM
Posted By Mallory.I've left this comment on another gripe, but it holds true here too. There are men out there who basically 'trick' women into pregnancy. It's happened to me; my partner was dead set on being a father, got me to come off contraception early (I mean, I wanted a baby too but I wanted to wait until we were married), and basically got me really enthusiastic about becoming parents. Lo and behold; I fall pregnant, and in the same week he ups and leaves me for another woman. So it's not just women who set the traps. There are men who do this too, leaving the woman facing single parenthood.
I have no personal vendetta toward you, I am just against the gripe that you have blindly chosen.
I think you need to get a wider scope on children and the how's what's where's and why's stem from.
Try looking at something other that your mirror.
I'm not trying to upset you, but I think you should think before you speak.
Go and ask the littlens on these gripe sites how they would greet your motion, after all, it's them that is going to feel it.
Ignorance is bliss.
C.P isn't the answer to the problem. Violence is your treatment for what you see as unaccepable behaviour. All you are doing is installing violence, and you can't correct violence with violence.
You have made comments based on no solid ground of knowledge. Giving birth doesn't make you an expert in bringing up children or put you in a position that you can rightly dictate how others children should be treated.
Considering i'm an obnoxious sad little person, that has nothing better to do than troll these sites, i'm just wondering why you are willing to give me your email addy. Is it because you don't want to be publicly humiliated ?
You seem to have a personal vendetta against me for some reason. Perhaps you'd like to debate properly, in which case I'll happily provide you with my email address. Or do you prefer to just be obnoxious in public? Either way, you strike me as a sad little person with nothing better to do than troll sites like this.
Well, I've had my baby, she's now 9 weeks old, and as expected I couldn't breastfeed past the first couple days. But she's thriving on formula and putting on weight at a healthy rate, and because I'm using bottles Daddy can be involved with the feeding too, so I'm actually getting a decent amount of sleep too! I'd recommend bottle-feeding to anyone who didn't like the idea of breast-feeding, as it really has its benefits.
Fred E
less chance of diarrhoea and vomiting and having to go to hospital as a result
fewer chest and ear infections and having to go to hospital as a result
less chance of being constipated
less likelihood of becoming obese and therefore developing type 2 diabetes and other illnesses later in life
less chance of developing eczema
No need to feel guilty about bottle feeding just because you feel like it.