Posted on 03/25/2013 5:55:29 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Despite growing warnings from pediatricians about feeding newborns anything other than breast milk or formula, many mothers appear to be introducing solid food well before their babies' bodies can handle it, says a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
In a national survey of 1,334 mothers, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40 percent said they gave their baby solid food before they were 4 months old, with 9 percent starting as early as 4 weeks. Doctors now recommend waiting until a baby is at least 6 months old.
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...or maybe you can figure out a way to get your wife out of the bathroom stall instead of waiting until “economic pressure” is applied on her employer. There are plenty of families that are able to function on one salary so a mother and child can at least stay home for 6 mos.
We would if we could. Like many, many families, double income is required for our continued sheltering and feeding
I am sorry to hear that...I would encourage you to find some families in your area that live on one income and ask how they do it. You may be surprised how some families are able to stretch a single low income and make it work. It sometimes takes a big leap of faith but it really is less stressful on the family.
see post 69
and we went without...One car, one very old TV, one table and chairs, one couch, one lamp w/table and bedroom set, one used crib, one used junior bed and fishing poles and reels. Groceries were "budgeted". Clothes....what we had on our back...and we weren't poor. We were average in upstate NY.
When Mom is not an option, there is Goat’s milk and honey, which comes close.
Nope. But was free to raise my kids the way I thought best. Worked OK for me. And the kids seemed pretty ok with it as well
It is a choice that is supposed to be available, although as limited-government types that isn’t particularly a good thing, I guess.
My wife works now, but only part-time, and she started after the kids were in school. When she first quit her job, she was making more than I was, but we adapted to half the income. And when she started again, we found a way to spend the additional money (well half of it anyway). With one kid in College it isn’t hard to spend more money.
Some women have to work, but I think we have lost perspective on the difference between “needs” and “wants”. Liberal society has been selling the overpurchased “good life” for years. And I feel bad for women who decide, for whatever reason, that the money is a necessity, and miss out on the hours of watching their children grow, and influencing their lives. I still miss that time in my life.
I take your point and agree with almost all of it.
Although I have no issue with state grants for basic research. Free markets work on profit motives and basic research may or may not ever provide profit sufficient to motivate. Expanding the field of human knowledge doesn’t always expand the ability to profit.
That's exactly what I've heard women who had babies in the 50's and 60's say - that formula was the new, preferred form of feeding babies back then. Thankfully, these days new mothers have more choices.
When my first was born, we were living in a city apartment, and one night a woman walked up to me and asked for money, claiming she needed the money because her baby needed formula. I told her I'd just had a baby, too, and that I had formula sent home with me from the hospital that I didn't need because I was nursing. I offered to go get the formula and give it to her. She declined the offer, just as I figured she would. I suspect she really wanted the money to buy some liquor around the corner. :-(
Amen!
She declined the offer, just as I figured she would. I suspect she really wanted the money to buy some liquor around the corner. :-(
I would not put it past many of these women to accept the formula through WIC and then turn around and sell it, or ship it back to ole Mehico - all the while either breastfeeding themselves or just giving their kids regular milk. Who knows what they do.
Freebies of all kinds go out ...nebulizer machines, etc ..the free ride just never ends.
I remember being married to a very new military officer some 25 years ago — our pay was so low. We did without to afford our own formula, diapers, etc. We never accepted WIC, although we could have probably qualified. It never entered my mind to sign up for something like that. I also sewed all of her bedding, crib bumpers, etc. by hand with several other preg military wives who did the same.
Those were the days . . .
I work in a nursing home and I completely agree.
My pediatrician (fairly young guy) told me I could start feeding my baby a little bit of cereal whenever I wanted. I know I started solid food way before six months and she did fine.
My niece has a baby who is about 8 months now and she is still barely giving him anything but breast milk. He seems to be doing okay but that is ridiculous to me. Humans are supposed to have food!
And we were told to make sure our babies slept on their stomachs. Now they tell us no, they must sleep on their backs. Screw the doctors and do what your baby wants/needs!
My first child was 7 months here first Thanksgiving. She was eating baby food and drinking milk by that time. At Thanksgiving dinner my husband handed her a turkey drumstick. I yelled at him “she can’t eat that!” and looked at her and she was smacking away on it. Would not eat baby food again after that. LOL
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