Commitment, or lack thereof...

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Registered: 07-10-2003
Commitment, or lack thereof...
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Tue, 01-08-2008 - 1:56pm

So I just saw something somewhere else (won't specify where, but I bet a few of you will figure it out!) where a woman indicated that she WAS planning on breastfeeding, but now because of a heated debate about it, she doesn't want to anymore.


Ummmmm, are you kidding me?

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Fri, 01-11-2008 - 9:27am

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Registered: 07-08-2001
Fri, 01-11-2008 - 9:29am

It's an analogy, not an apples-to-apples comparison. It's really difficult to come up with an analogy that everyone agrees on, LOL! We have:


1) the smoking analogy


2) the risky behavior during pregnancy analogy (drinking, riding a mechanical bull, etc)


3) the antibiotic analogy (my personal favorite)


4) the structural foundation analogy (another good one)


5) the McDonald's/Tang/etc. analogy


I know there are more...after I wade through all the posts I missed last night I'll start a new thread.

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Registered: 07-11-2006
Fri, 01-11-2008 - 9:31am
There's the exercise analogy and the new wearing a coat analogy.
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Fri, 01-11-2008 - 10:08am

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You just described what I felt perfectly.

 

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Registered: 03-28-2003
Fri, 01-11-2008 - 10:32am

"There is a person who is lactose intolerant. He has been drinking cow's milk exclusively. Once the problem is discovered, he switches to soy milk. He's fine. So, yes, it would be the milk making him sick, not his condition."

Ah, but if your mother had started you out on typical formula, you would have had the SAME reaction, and still would have wound up in NICU.

THEN, we could say that the choice to feed you FORMULA made you sick.

Because neither breast milk from the tap nor formula from the store shelves met your *unique* needs.

(since CF is NOT an intolerance for breast milk, I'll just let your analogy slide right on by)

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Registered: 08-10-2007
Fri, 01-11-2008 - 11:56am

"I think it's ironic that some people will religiously abstain from "potentially harmful" things like alcohol during pregnancy, but have no qualms about using formula afterwards, even though there is risk to the baby with both choices."


not all women feel that formula is risky to an infant...including ME


 

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Registered: 07-10-2003
Fri, 01-11-2008 - 11:58am
You might not "feel" it, but that doesn't change the fact that it is.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 01-11-2008 - 11:59am

Yeah. in which case, probably at the *very* least, having the anti-microbal properties of BM would be easier on a child with CF than regular (not pre-digested) formula would...even though evidently long-term the digestion issues would get the better of the child.





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Registered: 08-10-2007
Fri, 01-11-2008 - 11:59am
wait a second...exercise is risky behavior when pregnant? that makes no sense to me...

 

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Registered: 07-10-2003
Fri, 01-11-2008 - 12:01pm
Oh, and may I point out that a few decades ago,

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