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| Mon, 07-07-2008 - 7:50pm |
I chose to formula feed my daughter. I love her with all my heart, and am a great mother (contray to what other mothers will say because I didn't BF). I gave my daughter the best 9 months of my life when pregnant...eating healthy, excerising, quit smoking, quit drinking, yada yada yada and I give her everything in this world now but yes I was selfish and formula fed and do not regret one second of it. I'm sorry that my husband, mother, sister can help with feedings and make a bottle themselves... I can go out for a night and not worry about having a glass of wine or I can go to the mall and not have to whip my boob out in the middle of the common area. And my daughter is extemely healthy and happy. I don't think Im going to hell because I formula feed nor do I feel I am a bad parent. My husband and I agreed formula was the way to go for us. I'm sure there are plenty of things BF'ing mothers do that other parents wouldn't agree with but that doesnt mean you should be crucified for it. I think other mothers should get off their high horse about bf'ing and realize its just not for everyone and you're not

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"Yes there are some risks with formula but there are risk in everything in life."
True, but my purpose in my daughter's life is to minimize as many of those risks as possible. I always buckle her into her swing, I always buckle her in her carseat when we go in the car, I always cover her up when I take her out into the sun, and I always breastfeed her.
Formula-feeding my daughter when I can easily breastfeed her (more easily, in fact, than formula-feeding her) is akin to taking her out into the sun without covering her. If it costs me so little to do what's best for her, why wouldn't I do it? And why would you, knowing that formula has inherent risks, try to mitigate those risks by comparing it to other risks in life? Your naturalistic fallacy would have me not bothering to do any of the other things I mentioned either because since life has inherent risks, there's no point in trying to avoid them.
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Did you know that according to some studies that have been posted recently, children raised on "home made mixtures" have much fewer differences between them and children raised on commercial formulae, than the differences between children raised on commercial formulae and those raised on breastmilk? In other words, karo syrup and carnation milk is not as far from regular formula as formula is from breastmilk.
I personally, if I absolutely could not breastfeed and could not obtain enough donated milk for my child, would *absolutely* use a home made mix...a very *well researched* one that I took great care in making. I have more confidence in my ability to not screw up than that of a major manufacturor who can live behind a façade of recalls and lawsuits and not go bankrupt all the same. Particularly when it's *my* child's health that is at play here, not "the general health of millions of unknown children" (as it would be to a formula company).
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And no I wouldn't just feed my child evaporated milk and Karo syrup, formula was made to feed babies, a homemade mixture is not.
But thousands of babies were fed homemade FORMULAS and are "just fine."
OK but if you made a chicken dish that required chicken, rice, artichoke hearts, raisins, tomatoes, basil and oregano, and you tried to make this dish out of only basil, fake chicken and di-hydroxyase 5-ester polymerase (making up chemical names here ;-)) and a bunch of added vitamins, do you think it would really be like the real recipe? Or have the same nutritional value?
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Oh I don't disagree. My adopted sister's mother was a drug addict but I am convinced it was more the alcohol ingestion she would have done that gave her issues than the upper's or downer's she took.
Drinking while pregnant is like playing russian roulette with the baby's brain IMO. You never know which area will be "hit" and how hard. :-(
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<<And no I wouldn't just feed my child evaporated milk and Karo syrup, formula was made to feed babies, a homemade mixture is not.>>
One of our regular posters was fed a homemade formula as a child and she is still here, alive, and kickin'!
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Heh...that we are! :-)
And I'm not insulted or anything. Spencer may well have talked about it too! But it *is* one of my favourite things to bring up that is a tangeable issue that FFed babies deal with at a MUCH higher rate than BFed babies...
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"BFing comes with no guarantee."
And the conclusion we should draw from this is...
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"It is impossible to have a debate over breastfeeding and formula feeding. For every one user who posts benefits of formula there are 20 people who breastfeed and shoot down those benefits."
Sounds like a debate to me.
"And yes you breastfeed for the first couple years and then guess what? Kids start shoving the same crap in the mouths and tummy when they aren't breastfeeding anymore. Unless you plan on BF until they are 20."
Based on this logic, do you just give an infant soda and french fries? This is another naturalistic fallacy.
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