Posting photos of nursing babies online

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Posting photos of nursing babies online
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Wed, 09-05-2007 - 10:52am

On another board, a poster has a long siggy that includes a slideshow of nursing babies from her playgroup. Another poster took offense at it and there has been quite the debate over the appropriateness of the siggy. I posted a message inviting people here to discuss that issue, and I hope that one of the posters from that particular playgroup comes here, at least so we can see what the siggy looks like. I'm having a hard time forming coherent thoughts today, LOL! So don't worry if I don't come back to debate the issue with you, I'm trying to get out of the office so I can go home & sleep.


As "Linda Richmond" (aka Mike Myers) from SNL would say, "talk amongst yourselves."

Mary


Mom to Kevin 11/04/2003


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Registered: 09-05-2007
Mon, 09-10-2007 - 7:06pm
I never had a choice! My son was a co-sleeper, until he was 2. My dd wanted nothing to do with it, and would not sleep unless she was in her own crib in her own room from 5 weeks old.
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Mon, 09-10-2007 - 7:07pm
But you implied it by saying many BF moms think "FF moms choose formula because..." because of course no one said anything like that. What has been said is that specific FF moms who have posted here were uninformed/misguided/whatever.
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Mon, 09-10-2007 - 7:24pm
They still allow smoking indoors somewhere? Other than Vegas, I didn't think that existed anymore! Of course, smoking in restaurants in my state was banned so long ago I don't remember any different. I must have been 4 or so.
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Mon, 09-10-2007 - 7:27pm

"I didn't imply all any more than anyone else did with the statements in the first place."

"The crux of it seems to me to be that many BF moms think that FF moms choose formula because they are just not as informed/intelligent/caring as they are."

I don't see anything there that would indicate you *don't* mean ALL ff moms.

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Mon, 09-10-2007 - 7:35pm
You may be right. In my mind, it seems that you would state it with the dependent variable as the affector. Maybe it's just a linguistic mystery. :) I still think it's inflammatory to say that formula feeding harms a baby.
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Mon, 09-10-2007 - 7:47pm

"There are women who hate bfing to a point that they do take it out on their children (my sil....also a crappy mom for a myriad of other reasons...grrr)...so in cases like this ffing would make her a better mom.."

I'm about 100 posts behind, so I'm sure someone has addressed this, but I'll tackle it too.

If a mother is at THAT point, she has something ELSE going on in her life than just the decision to bf vs ff. Let's be honest; regardless of how you feed your child, you still have to parent that child, care for that child AND feed your child. I cannot see bf vs ff as the catalyst here. At any rate, a mom who is taking out her resentment on her child needs HELP. And if she does not get help, what will she do when the next thing comes across her path that she hates doing; homework perhaps?

Maybe formula got her through that time because she "hates breastfeeding", but the REAL problem is still there.

Cathie

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Mon, 09-10-2007 - 7:51pm

"Noone says "lack of breastmilk increases risks" they say that formula increases risk. It's inaccurate."

Who is "noone", exactly? I would say either could be accurate, depending on the disease of illness; is some cases both.

Cathie

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Mon, 09-10-2007 - 7:53pm
Nazi refers to every person who was a member of that political party. Just like a Republican or a Democrat here is not privy to the main agendas and goals of the parties, neither were members back then. It started as the Socialist Worker's party in the middle of a major depression, one much much worse than we experienced here. As time wore on it became clear what the goals were, but I tend to associate the atrocities with the leaders and the people who committed them, not everyone who was associated with the party.
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Mon, 09-10-2007 - 7:55pm
Other countries are not the only ones who skim over things in the history books. Both of my grandparents were in the military in Berlin during WWII.
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Mon, 09-10-2007 - 7:57pm
I never said it did. Only pointing out that perhaps the use of the term points more to "forcing ones opinion on others" rather than mass murder. Dictionary.com seems to agree with me on that one.

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