NIP Article - reader's comments

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NIP Article - reader's comments
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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

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Sat, 09-15-2007 - 4:34pm

"Yes, I do find that your comments smack of the Mommy Olympics.

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Sat, 09-15-2007 - 4:34pm

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And you are one of several claiming that it is such a huge inconvenience to simply feed a bottle of EBM during an outing, when it simply is not true.


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And there are various ways to ensure the safety of older children and be considerate of others in public rather than NIP, which ways you are going to great lengths to avoid taking.

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Sat, 09-15-2007 - 4:36pm

<<<(DO you label the bottles so that the people for whom you are doing so much know that you are feeding breast milk and not formula?)>>>

Excellent point! Do you remember those toy baby bottles we had that seemed to have liquids in them that would disappear when you tipped them upside down? I had a set of two: one with "orange juice" and the other with "milk". Because FF was in my experience as a child, I distinctly remember calling the "milk" bottle a "formula bottle". I am sincerely hoping that my child will see one of those someday and think of it as a "breastmilk bottle".

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Sat, 09-15-2007 - 4:42pm

If my dd had been given a bottle immediately after birth she might have been more willing to accept it.


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Sat, 09-15-2007 - 4:43pm

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And you are one of several claiming that it is such a huge inconvenience to simply feed a bottle of EBM during an outing, when it simply is not true.>>>

NEVER ONCE have *I* called it an "inconvenience". Go back and read my posts, please! *I* am stating that if I don't *have to* pump for a bottle of EBM, I will NOT be doing so. It is not *necessary* and it doesn't matter to me if I make some stranger in the park "uncomfortable" with my NIP. For me, it has nothing to do with "convenience" at all.

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Sounds like excuses to me....

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"Pretend"? I pumped every day with a manual pump so I could make cereal with BM. I did that for almost a year of my son's life. It was the only reason I saw, in *my* situation, for EBM. All feedings were done at the breast, because it was the way *I* saw fit to feed my child. I don't find that to be "militant" at all, since I was mostly alone in my living room or my son's nursery, and not a single soul was affected by what I was doing. If I was out of the house, I was discreet and quick. If someone took offense, it was THEIR problem, not mine. I don't have to do *anything* to appease the public when my right to NIP is protected by law. Period, end of story.

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I am not without a job, I am currently in use, and I am very productive, and again I do have a job.

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Sat, 09-15-2007 - 4:44pm

<<You were the one who described needing to get up sometimes at 4:30am to pump

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Sat, 09-15-2007 - 4:46pm

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Hee hee! Me too! How much should SAHM's be paid, again? It must be up in the hundreds of thousands by now. ;O)

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Sat, 09-15-2007 - 4:46pm

" couldn't even pretend to plant myself on a bench at the playground or mall for 10 to 20 minutes to BF my youngest since I would have to be up and about chasing my closely spaced, older children"


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Sat, 09-15-2007 - 4:48pm

It seems like a bit much to me to expect other women to purchase a three hundred dollar pump, bottles, and freezer bags, to take the time to pump their breastmilk and then take the time to feed the baby (when they could have opted to kill two birds with one stone), mess up their supply/demand balance, risking mastitis and antibiotics, leading to thrush, and to wash and sterilize the bottles and nipples, and risk infection and chemical poisoning from pthalates in the nipples – in order to make some potential other more “comfortable”.

As far as I know if you stick to a regular day-to-day nursing schedule, there won’t be engorgement. However, if you increase (by pumping or a growth spurt or a sick baby) one day, the next day your body will “make more”. Pumping to prepare bottles mucks with supply.
Engorgement of course, is no biggie, some discomfort, larger boobs, possible leaking. The problem really is that the engorgement can lead to a plugged duct or even mastitis, which are a nuisance, at best.

Or maybe you are suggested that nursing women pump every day and stock up all that milk, just in case they might want to go out. This sounds like a reasonable expectation from others?

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