Posted on 10/03/2006 8:44:58 PM PDT by blam
Exactly so.
"No offense intended to all of those wonderful mothers that choose not to breast feed for any reason. You probably know better than me, I just a hard headed guy"
I'm just thankful I live during a time where baby formula and bottles are available.
I wouldn't have done well in the old days :)
"You know what I find ironic? People won't feed animals stuff that's artifical because it's not good for them. There are folks who won't feed hummingbirds red colored sugar water, but will stick it in their kids bottles. If it's not OK to do it to animals how can people justify it for their own children?"
Don't you think this is a bit extreme?
I tried - but I couldn't do it.
Some women do not produce enough milk.
Some women are on medication that prevents them from passing the drug along through breastfeeding.
Some people adopt babies and have to bottlefeed.
To equate bottlefeeding with red sugar water is a little strange.
I breastfed both of my boys, because well, it just seemed to be the natural thing to do...human mothers milk for human babies, just seemed right...and for me and my boys, it was just right...
No bottles, no mixing of formula and no cost...I got to spend super extra time cuddling my babies, the skin on skin contact was most excellent, and I just felt I was giving my babies the most perfect food I could give for this, the very beginning of their lives...I saw all advantages in breastfeeding, and no advantages...
Well, there was always one small disadvantage...after I had weaned my babies, every time I heard a small baby cry, whether in the store, or at church or anywhere else, I would begin to leak milk...it was just a natural response...and truly this went on for not just weeks or months...it actually went on for a couple of years, before it finally stopped...hear a baby cry, leak milk...
Even today, tho my sons are grown, whenever I hear a newborn baby crying, my boobs feel like they want to leak, its just a feeling, the same feeling I always had when my own boys would cry to be nursed, and my breasts were responding...
I am curious if the other ladies here, who have nursed a long time ago, have had the same thing happen...
I love that little pic. The way the child is looking up at the woman's face and those chubby baby cheeks reminds me of how my son looked at me while nursing.
Trust me, a few years later, memories of that sweet face looking up at me spared him from many a spanking. : )
Three children, not Superhealthy, but healthy, and not an IQ of less than 133........Don't flame me...I CREDIT their MOM!
I understand that there are situations where a woman cannot breastfeed and in those cases the babies have to eat or starve. That's not what I'm referring to.
Besides, I have actually seen BABIES, like about a year old, in stores and supermarkets with blue colored liquid in their bottles, the stuff that looks like light blue Gatorade.
Yup. ALthough I didn't leak past the time I nursed, I would get that feeling of letting down.
Would that be the congressman from Buffalo?
Female Breasts are like toy trains, they were designed with children in mind but adult males seem to have alot of interest in them also.
Ah, there you have the right phrase, 'letting down'...just could not think of it...I am past 60, and I still get that feeling of let down when new babies cry...
Dont know why I leaked so much for so long after I stopped nursing...it was just really kind of odd...
You don't mind if I keep working the dispenser just to be sure, do you?
Your story sounds exactly like mine, except I was able to figure out somewhat early on in my oldest child's infancy that the cow's dairy products I was taking in were coming through MY milk. My oldest child was MISERABLE until my system cleared itself of the dairy intake - takes up to 2 whole weeks. And then - WHAM - she started sleeping through the night - thank goodness because I was totally sleep-deprived until then due to her crankiness and colickyness and crying/screaming fits.
You might be interested in my story - above.
That is and always will be the top reason breastfeeding is so good.
Of course we all know that the #2 reason is..................
Flies can't get at the milk either.
Nam Vet
"Besides, I have actually seen BABIES, like about a year old, in stores and supermarkets with blue colored liquid in their bottles, the stuff that looks like light blue Gatorade."
I thought you were comparing formula to sugar drinks...sorry.
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