Posted on 07/29/2012 3:10:08 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Ignorance of whom? This notion of a newborn baby immediately latching onto their mother and having a drink right after birth simply is a fantasy in the overwhelming vast majority of cases. There is a reason why humans have been supplementing breast milk for thousands of years.
I must know a whole heckuva lot of exceptions. And I must have birthed 10 exceptional children. I have ONE child who had formula. ONE. And that was a month after she was born. My mother must’ve birthed a lot of exceptions. And my grandmothers. And great-grandmothers. Now, on hubby’s side, things were different. My m-i-l was not interested in breastfeeding. I haven’t noticed any unusual health problems in hubby or his siblings. His maternal grandmother had a hard time breastfeeding her second child. She used formula over 60 years ago.
I was talking about replies from pro-breastfeeding folks as much as the pro-formula folks.
Maybe it’s the mountains I live in. Our hospital has a bustling lactation center full of specialists to help new mothers with breastfeeding. (I wonder why they even have one if it’s so easy?) They try to tell you it’s simple but they privately admitted to us it was rare to not ever supplement.
Congrats on your 10 kids, I couldn’t even begin to imagine.
Formula probably costs the government a lot of money via WIC or other government agencies. Breastmilk is free. And studies show that breastfed babies are less likely to grow up to be obese.
The Mayor needs to let people make their own decisions about what to eat and drink.
I have never needed a lactation consultant. That doesn’t mean that they did not barge into my hospital room over and over again to check on me. I did have one (but maybe she was a nurse) who taught me something new. I guess she had been very ill and living overseas when one of her children was born. She was devastated that she could not breastfeed when her child was born. But she learned that all the plumbing would still work months after giving birth. So after she was recovered from her illness, she breastfed her then several months old baby. That was fascinating to me.
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