«Cause that's what bottle -
feeding mothers do, right?
Not exact matches
An infant doesn't need its
mother to survive, it needs care,
feeding, and protection, but none of that HAS to come from its
mother.
If breast
feeding is to be okay in public, and to be okay in a church (which I am fine with, as it is the most useful thing a church is for), then
mothers should have absolutely no problem with people looking at them while they
do it.
I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition
fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my
mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.
No difference, for the same reasons you would not allow your little one to breast
feed on you in a work meeting are the very same reasons a
mother does not breast
feed in other public places.
No one else could
feed them but me — not a parenting professional, not a nurse, not even another
mother, not even my
mother (my hero) could
do what I was
doing.
It's funny because that's how my
Mother was in all her indirect mind - wrecking GLORY and to beat all, I went and befriended an older woman (who reminded me exactly like her and who I didn't understand I was using to
feed my own sick need to be demoralized and degraded) but soon her true colors emerged.
I
do believe they are considering little boys the ones they are
feeding... and maybe those teenage ones will be able to look at a breast not only as a object of sexual desire but first the resource that
mothers use (can use) to
feed their children... what a wonderful gift of knowledge and tolerance to give to them!
To this divine
mother we belong equally at our baptism, not based on our
doing, but on our being, and in the bosom of this
mother we are nurtured,
fed, loved, «just as we are without one plea.»
If a
mother is reasonably sure that
feeding the baby will quiet the child, and the
feeding can be
done without disturbing neighbors, then no issue.
Babies born by C - section
do not get their first dose from their
mother during birth, and formula -
fed babies miss out on the live bacteria in breast milk.
Breastfeeding
mothers don't have any obligation to allow you to give them space, they are only trying to
feed and nurture their child so if you have a problem with it turn your head and look away.
I try to encourage
mothers by sharing with them my story of pumping for 2 weeks waiting for my milk to come in while my husband used a supplemental nursing system to
feed our daughter (something they don't usually offer at my current hospital).
I hate comments such as earth
mother or hippy, it is natural to
feed our young we are mammals after all,
does it matter how long we
feed them for?
Did you know that, if laid on the
mother's chest, many babies will naturally root towards the breast and begin to try and
feed?
I
did, however, find some related information on The Natural Child Project: Throughout human history, breast -
feeding mothers sleeping alongside their infants constituted a marvelously adaptive system in which both the
mothers» and infants» sleep physiology and health were connected in beneficial ways.
It is also not my place (or anyone else's place) to tell a breastfeeding
mother to «
do that somewhere else» when she is
feeding her child in public.
(I also wonder, if a breastfeeding
mother makes less than a formula
feeding mother,
does the cost of formula actually eat up the difference?
Babies can go through growth spurts (you read about them here), leaving their
mothers feeling like they are
doing nothing but
feeding.
I was a militant breast
feeding mother Goddess, and if you aren't
doing it right like me, then you just aren't trying hard enough.
«While experts are not, in the end, able to control how
mothers feed their babies, they
do set the standards by which women may be judged by others and, perhaps most importantly, judge themselves.»
Sroufe unpacks
feeding as an example: A
mother could breastfeed, but
do it in a mechanical and insensitive way, potentially contributing to an insecure attachment.
Finally, if a woman is feeling pressured to breastfeed but she doesn't really want to, bottle
feeding may be best for the
mother infant relationship.
Saying «
fed is best» doesn't diminish breastfeeding
mothers, it simply acknowledges that
feeding your baby is a personal choice and what's best for one family may not be best for another.
Safe for both
mother and baby, it doesn't need to be washed off before
feedings.
Breastfeeding
mothers feed their child while taking care of their other children or while they're working and
doing any other of a million necessary tasks.
If the regular prolactin production was at 71 % when it was time to
feed, for
mothers who
did not drink alcohol, it was at 25 % for the
mothers who had ingested alcohol.
The other exact half were breastfeeding from
mothers who
did not touch marijuana while they were
feeding their babies.
Their analysis showed that the breastfed babies
did indeed tend to gain weight more slowly than the formula -
fed babies, even though fortifiers were added to the
mother's milk.
It is wonderful to think that those
mothers who already feel confident to
do so (and no
mother should feel any pressure to
feed her child in public) will continue to find their own preferred degree of comfort and discretion and breastfeed their children in public whenever and wherever it is right for them.
The main reason
mothers there stopped breast -
feeding their babies was their perception that husbands
did not like it, because it's unappealing and desexualizes the breast.
When your husband is exhausted by a punishing work schedule and complains that «all you
do is sit there and
feed the baby,» or your
mother questions whether you have enough milk because little John is still not sleeping through, or someone tells you that you shouldn't feel tired — hinting at a lack of fitness or will.
Back in 1997 there was a Health Ministry Decree which prohibited hospitals from becoming a «market» for formula milk; despite this, many hospitals still
do it anyway through a soft - sell approach (giving out formula «gift packages»), by «terror» tactics (that breast milk is not enough), usurpation (
feeding the baby formula unbeknownst to the
mother), lies (that formula is better), or outright pressure.
Even, a
mother of a newborn baby,
does not hesitate to stay awake almost whole night or
feeding s / he for a long time.
Annual surveys by Ross Laboratories, a formula company, indicate that in 1956, 28.7 percent of
mothers breast -
fed their babies in the first week of life; in 1992, 52.6 percent
did.
«Some women don't want to listen to their
mothers when it comes to breast -
feeding.
Breast
feeding does not always come naturally to the
mother or child, and if it remains a problem after giving it fair try (about two weeks), many pediatricians advise the
mother to switch her infant to bottles.
«Who doesn't support a
mothers right to
feed?
Maehr theorizes that few teenage
mothers have access to the kind of prenatal care many of their adult counterparts get, and as a result simply don't understand that an alternative to bottle -
feeding exists.
I don't think any
mother out there decided to formula
feed because she wanted to be ~ on trend ~.
I struggled a lot with
feeding my girl (she had no sucking reflex due to growth issues in utero) and ended up breastfeeding her but to be frank would have
done anything - like any
mother would - to get her
fed and growing.
We don't have our
mothers, aunts, sisters and friends to mimic when it comes to learning how to latch and feel confident in our ability to
feed our babies with only our bodies.
However, know that as a breastfeeding
mother, you
do have options when it comes to
feeding your newborn.
I
du n no, maybe the
mother can't
do anything else except think of
feeding her baby for it to work, so the baby gets less milk,... but no, that can't be right because it works by supply and demand, there is no such thing as not enough milk.
Apart from difficulties with
feeding itself, if a
mother is able to produce enough milk and the baby is able to latch, you don't need anything else.
But if the
mother says she has to go back to work right away, she has three children, and she doesn't want to breast -
feed?
And just because you successfully breast
fed one or more of your other children,
does not mean you might not have a challenge with a subsequent child, so a lactation consultant is NOT exclusively for first time nursing
mothers.
Wow, for someone that knows everything there is to know about
feeding a baby, you should probably know that its been a little longer than «hundreds of years» that women and infants have «flourished from breast
feeding» You sound very ignorant and judgemental and I hope whatever child you're breastfeeding doesn't pick that up from you, that is way more unhealthy than a
mother than uses formula!
By not taking the proper care in
feeding herself well, a nursing
mother may end up
doing her own body a lot of harm by not providing the proper nourishment for herself.
Why
do you think most
mothers feel the need to explain why the formula
feed, even if no one asks?