NIP Article - reader's comments
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NIP Article - reader's comments
| Sun, 09-09-2007 - 10:53pm |
Here's an seemingly innocent article on a nurse-in at an Applebees. However, if you read the reader comments...boy oh boy! Talk about some ignorant remarks. One of them even equated NIP to smoking! Unbelievable. I thought it would be a good thing to discuss on here, especially since our resident FF/anti-NIP'ers are feeling underrepresented.
http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/0908breastfeeding--ON.html
BF'ers, be prepared to be astounded.























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<<Not to mention the fact that if a woman is missing a feeding due to giving a bottle she really needs to express milk around the same time to maintain supply and prevent uncomfortable engorgement.>>
Not really.
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Not really. If you pump for one feeding a day, you've still expressed milk for that feeding. It continues to be the same number of times a day that milk is expressed.>>>
Not so for me! I was (am) a very prolific producer, but my manual pump could never get as much milk out of me as my baby could. Even if I only pumped, and tried to give him EBM (which he rarely took!) instead of nursing, I would usually feel engorged and almost always leaky after that. I would then have to nurse anyway, firstly because my son wouldn't take a bottle from me, and secondly because my body expected to have more of the milk removed so it could continue adequate production for my child. You're making a lot of generalizations (here and in your previous posts) that just don't/won't apply to every BF mom.
I find your post interesting
Generalizations exist because there is oftentime some validity to them.
" What if these babies who absolutely refused a bottle had mothers who simply had to work out of the home? What then?"
I work and my son, for the most part, refuses to drink from a bottle, a straw, a sippy cup, an open cup, etc. He eats enough at his sitter's to tide him over and then nurses when we are together (yet another reason why your idea of pumping and bottle feeding is not possible for many women).
"Pumping once instead of directly feeding the child is not skipping a feeding."
What about the feeding that is being skipped b/c you are out in public feeding your child with a bottle? I would become engorged if I went longer than a few hours without nursing/ pumping.
Add me into the group of women whose child will truly not take a bottle. He also doesn't drink very well from a sippy cup yet. Though I am at SAHM, what I've heard from a lot of women is that their babies reverse cycle while they are at work. So, basically, instead of going a long stretch while they are sleeping, they go a long stretch while they are gone from mom and make up for the calories at night.
I'm pretty sure my son heard about this idea and decided it was a good idea to combine this concept with regular daytime nursing. That way, he gets he fav food all day and night ;)
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Ever heard of reverse cycling? It when a baby eats a bare minimum during the day while away from Mom, just enough to sustain him, and then nurses all evening and throughout the night when they are together. Lots of WOH BF moms have had this experience.
Like I said before, way too many generalizations in your posts.
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Tell that to my breasts. I nurse my almost-2 YO old son three times a day, at the exact same times, almost to the minute each day, and still get engorged and leak all the time. In fact, just this morning I leaked through my nightgown while getting him from the crib. It had been 12 hours since I last nursed him, exactly the same as it has been since he started STTN at 10 months old...14 months ago.
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