[Bushforlife]

"Let's evaluate the messages here:
1) Epidural - Don't consider ANY discomfort for a moment when there's an easy way out.
2) Formula - Don't plan on giving your baby the most valuable nourishment possible, or taking on the maternal bonding, so valuable to the babies development.
3) Infant Daycare - Plan early on abandoning your baby, so that IT doesn't become an obstacle to your all important career. Occasional contact with your child in the morning, evenings, and weekends is sufficient to provide the love and parental guidance necessary to produce an emotionally stable child, inculcated with your values and perspectives."

You have a set of beliefs. You have a RIGHT to those beliefs. I don't share them, nor do I believe them to be universally applicable. You have a right to refuse epidural; for many women, they make the opposite choice, and do very well. You may refuse formula feeding; for many other families, they choose to use formula for a variety of reasons and do very well.

As for daycare, I agree that children do MUCH better in a loving family environment rather than being left among strangers and exposed to germs at a younger age than in prior generations. I believe that a decision to bear children also implies a commitment to THEM, rather than to a career. That being said, parents have a RIGHT to leave their children in daycare, and it really is none of my business if they do.

[G Larry]

I don't give a rat's @$$ about the "parents right".

I object to the insistance by these would be advisors to the parents to be, that they "SHOULD" place the baby in infant daycare.
That is an abuse to the baby's right to parental care!

The "advice" seems all centered around particpating in the culture of avoiding responsiblity and inconvenience.