Posted on 05/13/2022 9:25:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bette Midler urged moms to simply “TRY BREASTFEEDING” amid the crippling breast formula shortage — and was widely slammed for the “obtuse” and ignorant comment Friday.
The 76-year-old “Beaches” star was responding to a tweet from MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle Thursday night that declared the “baby formula shortage reveals an amazing secret oligopoly” of three companies owning “90%” of the market.
The Divine Ms. M shot back, “TRY BREASTFEEEDING! It’s free and available on demand,” prompting a firestorm of criticism from parents.
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I found breast feeding to not be that labor or time intensive.
There’s no bottles to wash or sterilize, formula to prepare, refrigerate, warm up and make sure it’s not too hot, carry with you in a diaper bag, run out of, worry about using contaminated water, ……..
Well some may have starved. But, For the most part Rosie has a point. Of course there are exceptions such as adopted babies or with CPS, medical conditions, babies who can’t latch (cleft pallets) , etc
However those babies can’t equal the amount of formula being demanded.
Perhaps Many women’s milk May have already dried up at this point. But, if there’s any question moving forward - I hope new mothers will nurse.
I was under the impression there was a ‘push’ by the medical community to nurse.
My nephew had failure to thrive. It was a very difficult time. He survived when my mom recommended evaporated milk. He could not tolerate formula and could not latch due to a cleft pallet.
these hollowwood elitist...they'll say anything to support the deep state....
the ww2 generation didn’t all breast feed...at least my mother and her contemporaries didn’t.. my mil didn’t...they were taught that formula was best...thus the great assault on natural mother hood and a good marriage started.
You're right, of course!
Prior to the widespread availability of baby formula, no baby was ever malnourished, or had a cow's milk allergy, or was troubled with similar attendant difficulties, and no woman had difficulty producing enough breastmilk.
/mordant sarcasm
Regards,
What did motorists do before the invention of the automobile?
Yeah, sure, riding a horse might not be as quick or convenient as driving a car, but these modern people are so pampered and lazy and entitled!
/mordant sarcasm
Regards,
I breastfed all mine, including twins. It was always ready when they needed it.
By the same logic, there's no way a single woman should ever come up short on her rent because she still has something between her legs that can earn her money and it's her fault she's not using it if she needs to make ends meet.
The whole breastfeeding argument is bitterly divisive, most so among mothers who wanted to be breastfeeders but for one reason or another couldn't do it. It's a very toxic world and it gets fed regularly with new mothers who are at the height of emotion and sensitivity to judgement. Best we stay out of that entirely and figure out how to get the dang formula to the babies.
Gargoyles like Midler and her alter ego Behar are knee jerk defenders of f (failing) f Joe. The baby milk shortage is a perfect example of the disaster that has befallen America since the stolen election.
Exactly. Of course not every man or woman can breast feed. But if only one third did, that would solve the problem. I am sure there is some kind of pill to stimulate the milk glands. What is missing is the desire.
Babies did starve if mom did not produce enough milk
Contrary to what wifty liberals would have us believe, in many ways the 50s was the most “modern” decade in history.
We got to thinking we could reduce everything to its bare elements and perfect it scientifically.
Didn’t need human milk, we could synthesize a better formula in a lab. We learned to grow crops and raise animals not in backyards with manure and hay but in huge mechanized farms with chemical fertilizer and feed. Traditional neighborhoods could be bulldozed to put up planned communities and highways.
Sure there were real advances in the science of chemistry and everything else, but there was a mania to scentifically “perfect” and “improve” that really lost sight of the human aspects of these things, and their interconnectedness.
In that way, we are more conservative now than the post-war generation was.
I am a non-breasted person, but I am the sperm donor for seven children, all of whom were nourished only by my chest-feeder, which went fine.
I think the support for this hysterical reaction, mostly from persons of uterus, that “many birthing persons can’t do it” is just nonsense.
If chest feeding was too difficult, or commonly didn’t work, there wouldn’t be mammals.
I had a rough start with my first, which was strictly inexperience.
Initially I wasn’t producing enough milk, but that was because I didn’t start out right, feeding her as often as I could.
And with her, I could have fed twins. I had lots of left over milk to freeze.
With my son, he ate like twins, so he was fine.
That has got to possibly be the worst argument I have ever seen comparing something to breastfeeding.
I don’t know how you weren’t ashamed to post that.
Yes...I was 2 lb 11 oz back then when I was born...my mom said the doctor could fit me in the palm of his hand. I guess being that small was a lot more dicey in those days.
I was fed goats milk as allergic to cows milk. From being a premie to a fat little fellow.
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