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Yep, that is another thing. It isn't their fault if their body (for some reason I don't know.... i'm not going to pretend to be an expert on woman and breast-feeding and such ) physically can't produce enough milk. It isn't fair at all to them, since they pretty much have no other option.

I tried forum=la to look up some MILFs but to no avail.

Momma got a squeezebox ,Daddy never sleeps at night..........

While I agree that breastfeeding isn't an option for some women, for many others, very early difficulties in breastfeeding simply make them give up altogether because it's just too much work--even though a lot of those difficulties CAN be overcome. There's just not much incentive to overcome them, and a lot of disincentive.

I do think it's ridiculous that the government thinks it's sufficient to just wag a shaming finger at moms who use formula. Let's talk about encouragement and subsidies for companies that put in nursing/pumping lounges and give nursing mother's longer and more frequent paid breaks for expressing, rather than forcing them to try to squeeze it all out in two short 10-minute breaks in a dim, bacteria-filled restroom stall. Let's talk about encouragement and incentives for restaurants whose waitstaff don't harass mothers who attempt to nurse their children at the table (my favorite response of all time to this from a nursing mother to a waitress who was ******** on the behalf of other patrons -- "My son will eat his dinner in the bathroom right after you eat yours there.")

The fact is, thanks in large part to the US's absurd puritanical roots, it is an extremely unfriendly environment for breastfeeding mothers. Because breastfeeding involves--omgzorz!!--a NAKED BREAST, breastfeeding has traditionally been treated as a shameful activity which needs to be kept out of sight and not mentioned. This gives few places--whether they are workplaces, recreational outlets, or retail facilities--any reason to provide accomodation for nursing mothers.

Frankly, I think the best way to encourage more mothers to overcome obstacles against breastfeeding it to remind them of the COST of formula. At least $1500 can be saved in the first SIX MONTHS by breastfeeding. My friend has a daughter that will be 1 year old in a couple weeks, and in the first few months they had a lot of trouble nursing, due in large part to a bad case of thrush that was quite painful for both mother and daughter, and the baby having trouble with reflux as well. My friend got to the point where she started each breastfeeding session with a pep-talk for herself and her daughter, which went something to the effect of, "If you breastfeed for at least one year, we can afford private college for you. If we have to switch to formula, you're stuck with a state school."



Edited, Jun 16th 2006 at 6:50pm EDT by Ambrya

On $3000, I think the little girl has a future at community college

That's horrible. Although I do not like public breast feeding just due to the fact it creeps me out, I would by no means make a woman leave a public area. Maybe if the breast was fully exposed, but I notice a lot of mothers throw a blanket over most and the child and I feel that is more than acceptable.

Don't like seeing someone breast feed? You have a whole nother 359 degrees of view, so use it.

Yeah, like the cow milkers in a dairy farm. You know, gates, troughs, octopus-like mechanical suckers, the whole deal.

Works on married men too

Throwing an extra $17,000 into the pile isn't remotely the same thing as sending someone to college on the money saved from breastfeeding, now is it?

The real money sink in child-rearing is in disposable diapers vs cloth. You could bottlefeed your spawn on Cristal and not spend as much as you do on soaking it up from the other end.

Whoa.

My mom formula fed me and my brother. She claims it was because she wanted my dad to be able to bond with us but I have this suspicion that she didn't want saggy boobs. It was really weird to have my mom peeking over my shoulders with my daughter. She wanted to watch because she had no idea what it was like. They just gave her a pill after birth to stop the milk production and that was it.

About this whole formula is evil stuff, what a total crock of sh*t. I'm all for breastfeeding and can talk for hours about it with mothers-to-be but I also know firsthand why a lot of women stop if not for production reasons. That would be:

THE FARKING PAIN

I'd spent 9 months agonizing over how horribly painful birth was going to be and 1 week after it I was thinking, ok WTF why does no one ever tell you how horrifyingly painful breastfeeding is the first week? I swear, I thought I was going to pass out everytime she latched on. My nipples bled, stung, burned, weird bubbles of flesh kept popping up, and skin was coming off like crazy. And boy did that lanolin lotion do jack for me. When I asked about the bleeding I was assured it's ok for the baby to ingest some blood. It was then I knew... I knew that all those f*cking breastfeeding coaches knew just what I was in for!!

But once I hit the "pain peak" on day 7, it became the wonderful experience all the books described it as. (Can't say I've ever had one of these so-called "breastfeeding orgasms" though.) I am a huge breastfeeding fan, but anyone who tells me they stopped because they couldn't take the pain won't hear any criticism from me. I actually complained to my OB a few months later and she told me that some women are forced to stop because their nipples actually crack in half. *SHUDDER*

I've been pretty lucky both times with production (I have almost 70 bags in the freezer). I actually looked up on how to donate breastmilk to premies but I decided not to after I found out the minimum donation is 150 oz. Anyone still thinking about whether to and has the chance to pump at work really should do it. The money issue is huge. Formula costs like a car payment already.