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To: An.American.Expatriate

It’s called a babysitter.


17 posted on 10/20/2013 11:39:10 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: PeteB570

I suspect from your screen name that you never breast-fed a baby. Just guessing, but am I right? So let me tell you how this works.

Yes there are breast pumps. Even the best ones do not work anywhere near as well as a baby’s jaws in emptying out the breast. When the breast is not emptied, it reduces milk production. Less milk is not a good thing for the baby.

Furthermore, the pump has to be used regularly, every few hours, to keep production up.

Furthermore, babies who get in the habit of drinking from a bottle don’t transition back to the breast readily, because the bottle is so much easier. So having a sitter feed him from a bottle every few hours is going to create problems.

I’m not being critical of you because these are things most men don’t know, and even women who haven’t nursed a baby don’t know. But nursing is something healthy and natural that this woman is trying to do for her child, and as a conservative you should not favor the government interfering in the relationship between parent and child.


25 posted on 10/20/2013 11:51:35 AM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: PeteB570

Are you going to pay for that?

Would you trust your newborn with ‘just anyone’?

Would the jury be allowed breaks so she could pump? Some moms need to pump ever 2hrs or their supply dwindles.

Bad decision all around.


35 posted on 10/20/2013 12:21:23 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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