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Inappropriate places to BFIP??
| Tue, 02-17-2004 - 10:48am |
Is there anywhere you feel it is completely inappropriate to nurse in public?
| Tue, 02-17-2004 - 10:48am |
Is there anywhere you feel it is completely inappropriate to nurse in public?
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ITA, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that the women on this board hold their babies. IRL, I haven't seen that as much. I do think that nursing a toddler hands down results in more one-on-one. I think this age is when some moms are prone to letting a baby hold the bottle. Also, most moms I know don't let their toddlers have more than a bottle or two a day (if at all). My dd nurses 6-10 times in 24 hours. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I think the comfort, security and grounding that nursing provides can really help toddlers get through the toddlerhood.
I think the longer I nurse, the more I see how important it is for my dd (she *needs* it) and the more important and crucial I feel it is to ebf.
Technically that's true, but do you honestly think a bottle fed baby could never or even almost never be held? The mother would have to go to great lengths to always feed a bottle without holding the baby! Now as for the occasional, fraction of the time a bottle fed baby is fed while not actually being held, do you think that makes a difference on bonding? To me it's laughable to even suggest so (not that you have suggested it but others have).
Anne
I understand breastmilk is different. I still just could not do it. It is just me. I'm being honest. Nope siree, can't do it :o)
On one of my marathon long days I just couldn't pop a bottle of ebm at 6pm that had been in the diaper bag since 7 that morning. I just couldn't do it. But that is me. Not saying it can't be done, not at all. Just not me.
Better for whom?
Cathie
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