Sentences with phrase «for lactivist»

The difference here is that in the case of IV fluids for lactivist purposes, there's a perfectly safe and healthy alternative in formula, whereas with vaccines, the alternative to not vaccinating is the diseases themselves, which aren't perfectly safe nor healthy.

It has some short term benefits on a population level basis — which means it makes sense for government agencies who want to save some healthcare dollars to be interested in breastfeeding levels, but is a poor explanation for lactivist zealotry.

Even though I breastfeed for as long as possible (because I want to, not because I am a sheep that is following the crunchy crowd) I am still waiting for these lactivist to explain to women what they are supposed to do when they are trying to breastfeed, take care of other children, and have no support taking care of the household.

Here's a newsflash for lactivists: women formula feed because they want to do so and unless and until you address the real reasons, and stop pretending that this is a giant conspiracy on the part of «Big Forma,» all your campaigns are doomed to failure.

The quoted paragraph above is misleading and not strictly true, but for lactivists, the ends justify the means.

I never understood the need for some lactivists to be as public as possible with breastfeeding and why they get SO offended when asked to cover up or be more discrete in any fashion.

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I am thankful for the info & support of online lactivists & their education of me.

Cate, a self - professed lactivist who writes at Eco Child's Play, says she doesn't believe that «setting aside creative, imaginative free play for an instructional doll is the best for kids.

I'm personally very thankful for the (non-judgmental) lactivist community online and the information you put out there because in future, I hope to have more success breastfeeding through what I've learned.

Thanks for years of support, lactivists!

I'd like to say I laid the foundation for my little brother to become a lactivist when his own wife began to breastfeed years later, but the truth is, I was just embarrassed for him to see me nursing.

But amidst the plethora of substantial, legitimate information, there is also a cacophony of foreboding, judgmental voices: «lactivist» blogs that compare formula feeding to child abuse; public message boards with calls to action - «I automatically feel sorry for the baby sitting in the cart in the formula aisle as their parent loads up on cans of the stuff.

Trying to breastfeed for 3 months cost me roughly the same as a year of formula, so I am really just guessing that its cheaper for some women since all the lactivists claim it's free.

For all the lactivist efforts, the majority of infants in this country receive formula at some point.

Switching to formula was so hard for me because of the bullying tactics of lactivists, but it was what had to happen if my child was going to eat.

Maybe it's because lactivists like Martha are well aware that for many women breastfeeding isn't awesome at all.

I found the dissertation valuable for the way in which Newman explains the American lactivist movement.

The single biggest obstacle to lactivists encouraging breastfeeding is that they are so desperate to stroke their own egos that they don't listen for even a milllisecond to what women are actually telling them.

I personally did not run into any LCs or lactivists because it was clear after a month that pumping was not working for us, and I switched to 100 % formula.

Unfortunately, most lactivists ignore that some difficulties just can not be overcome (no amount of support is going to effect IGT, for example).

You can read the rest of Martha's «revelations» for yourself, but I do want to note one claim beloved of lactivists:

So, I think the reason that lactivists encourage mothers to breastfeed so strongly, is because it IS hard in the beginning, but for many moms it DOES get easier.

It's funny because lactivists try to sell breastfeeding as easier and more convenient for women yet at the same time shame women who don't breastfeed as lazy and selfish.

I would be shamed for this by many lactivists but my husband and I agreed before the baby was born that if she had issues with dairy we would have to go with formula.

If you're going for the guilt, and lactivist sanctimommies are always going for the guilt, it's best to compare other mothers» behavior to a heinous crime.

No lactivist offered to donate any of those items or pay for them.

Simply because a quiet complaint to the right person may make more of a difference than exhaustedly telling off a lactivist for taking advantage of a captive audience.

Thank you for taking the REAL feminist stance that women should be free to choose whatever way of birthing and infant feeding they feel is best for them, not just the NCB / lactivist approved choice.

No amount of lactivist «education» can change the reality that exclusive breastfeeding is not the best choice for everyone and formula companies are needed to fulfill the need for safe substitutes.

I don't even really consider the photo a protest so much as an injoke for breastfeeding lactivists.

The constant need for reinforcement at every turn that lactivists seem to have is revealing.

But for some of the most fringe lactivists, any formula is enough to diminish that «exclusive breastfeeding» label.

Easier to work for your father's law firm, study to get a CPM, and put on more hipster get - ups to get cute pictures of yourself doing lactivist sit ins.

In every choice that a parent needs to make, the NCB / lactivist approved option is invariably the one that is the hardest and most time consuming for the mother.

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And there are lots of options for crunchy, breastfeeding fans and lactivists: Onesies that read «Peace Love Breastfeeding» ($ 12 for an infant onesie)

Then I feel guilt for feeling shame because I'm a lactivist for heaven's sake!

I fear that the topic of the Nestle boycott is perceived as a lactivist's cause and that those who have formula fed have the freedom to, at best, ignore the boycott, or at worst, lob accusations at Nestle boycotters for being insensitive to the plight of those who have chosen formula for infant feeding.

Lactivists for the win... I love it!

But the IRS» stated reason for denying tax sheltered status is the characteristic enthusiastically embraced by lactivists themselves: breastfeeding is natural.

Breastfeeding supplies have never qualified as medical care, but lactivists and pediatricians were advocating for a change in the rules.

The Lactivist Store offers the best breastfeeding t - shirts I have ever seen (including pro breastfeeding shirts for men), and donations are made to the Mother's Milk Bank of Ohio.

Thankfully, I wasn't so deeply entrenched in the «lactivist» mindset that I believed that a stranger's milk or making my own formula would be better or safer for my son.

It opened my eyes to the fact that the only person who gets to decide which feeding method is best is the mother, she knows her family and her situation better than anyone else, certainly better than the anonymous lactivists on the internet who mean to shame her for her choices.

I would love for one of those hateful «militant lactivists» to have spent a few days on my schedule and then tell me that I just wasn't trying hard enough.

The message you always get from lactivists is that breastfeeding makes you a good mom and not breastfeeding makes you an inferior mom, that breast is always best; I think it was this message that made it so difficult for me to see the damage I was causing to my children in my quest to exclusively breastfeed my youngest.

In it, she chides lactivists for their intolerance of tolerance, lactivists who say things like ``... [I] t is scientifically proven that breast is better.