Inappropriate places to BFIP??
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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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Pregnancy I loved pretty much if you take away the nausea, lol! But birth? The best. I almost feel like a masochist saying I enjoyed it, lol!
Right now if I could just get him to eat ANY solids I'd be thrilled :o)
Of course, I hold my babies ALL the time, ALL the time!
i've never fed ebm to either of my children. so, technically no. however, yes, i'd pump milk at 7 am that sil or dh could feed at 3pm or even 4pm. breastmilk is not formula - the same rules don't apply and to apply them is kind of silly.
I wouldn't. >>>>
i don't see the relevance...you wouldn't bf.
Actaully, it's the mass production milking methods that are dirty. Free range, grass fed cows are not *that* dirty. 1000's of cows that are herded into a huge facility to be milked end up covered in feces which is why infection is so rampant...and why you'll find puss in mass produced milk (pre-pasteurization).
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No, it isn't required if you're getting your milk from responsibly raised and milked cows. (Can't think of a better way to ohrase it.) Raw milk is available to the general public in some states. I drink raw milk.
I decided not to breastfeed. It isn't that I wouldn't. I considered it extensively twice, during two pregnancies, before my first pregnancy, btw pregnancies. I just felt comfortable with formula feeding. I wouldn't bfip or in front of anyone other than dh and older children. That is what I said I absolutely wouldn't do.
Actually that's a great point. It is entirely possible that women who are not "natural nurturers"--the less 'maternal' women out there--choose FF more often than BF'ing. *BUT* I would venture to guess that if those women had bonding issues with their children it would be due to their lack of nurturing skills in general, not the fact that they fed them from a bottle.
In other words, if you could take a group of FF'rs who are poorly attached to their babies, go back in time and have them BF their babies, I do not think there would be any difference. You bring up often the idea that BF is more than a feeding method. I'd have to say you're right, but so is FF'ing. You can certainly go through the motions and BF a child without tenderness and warmth, just as you can do the same with a bottle. So if the mother has issues with showing tenderness and warmth and nuturing her child, there are going to be issues regardlesss of where their nutrition came from. (Hope that made some sense).
I happen to know of one person personally who had "bonding issues" (by her own admission) with her DD in the begining, and she EBF this child. She ended up with PPD, and through counseling a lot of issues came up. She realized that she was, just as you said, not a natural maternal type of person (and neither was her own mother). Those were the issues that caused her to have trouble bonding, and BF'ing did not help them at all.
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