"Proud Formula Feeder"?

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"Proud Formula Feeder"?
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Thu, 12-14-2006 - 8:27pm

In my playgroup, I've noticed some members have a blinkie I haven't seen before: "Proud Formula Feeder". In the past, I've seen the "Formula Feeding Mom" and "It's formula, not rat poison", but this new one struck me as odd. I can understand simply stating that you formula feed or saying that formula isn't rat poison (because it isn't), but I've been trying to figure out just why someone would be "proud" to FF.

While I don't think that women should necessarily feel guilty about not BF, I don't get what about FF there is to be proud about. Most (or maybe even all) of the women with said blinkie acknowledge that breastmilk is better, so why would they be proud to feed their babies something they know is substandard, even if they couldn't BF and FF was their only choice? What do you ladies think? Is/should there be such a thing as FF pride?

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Registered: 12-30-2006
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 5:55pm

You sound jealous that I am an educated woman who just happens to be successful and well paid. I don’t make fun of what ever employment you have, nor have I judged you. I am however deluded in thinking those women who are raising the future of our country would be far less crude and insulting, if it is our goal to better society. Anyone with any amount of education should be respected and seen as a model for the younger generations. But as you seem fit to become degrading and insulting I see no use in furthering any form of conversation with you. I truly hope that each of you can see that by treating others they way you seem fit to treat the women here can only lead to the future down fall of society, and they what does it matter if you baby eats formula or BM? You think you are better mothers for BF your baby, but what of a mother who BFs her baby then burns it with cigarettes, does that still make her a better mother? You will forgive me if I think that the scars on my arm are not representational of my mother’s good parenting because she chooses to BF me before abusing me. I am a better and smarter person not for what she fed me as a baby. Think about that when you are verbally insulting anyone who actually loves their child and chooses a life of no abuse even if they are using formula.

Best Wishes to each of you, and good luck to the FF of the world, you love and care about your babies, just as much a BF mothers, and don’t let them treat you otherwise, they are just tired and jealous that you are getting more sleep then they are… and that’s a FACT!

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Registered: 02-20-2006
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 6:01pm

I was wondering the same thing.

In fact, LLL seems to agree, among other sources provided below tend to agree:

"Although reflux can be very painful, it is comforting to know that breastfed babies tend to cope better with the illness than their artificially-fed counterparts. According to La Leche League information, the breastfed infant's tongue motion triggers peristaltic waves along the gastrointestinal tract. These muscular contractions help the milk and food travel down into the stomach. In addition, human milk digests more completely – and twice as fast – as formula."

http://breastfeed.com/resources/articles/breastfeedreflux.htm
http://www.infantrefluxdisease.com/breastfeeding_reflux.php
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12013677&dopt=Abstract
http://www.reflux.org/Reflux/webdoc01.nsf/(vwWebPage)/Breastfeed.htm?OpenDocument

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Registered: 12-30-2006
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 6:02pm
do you read anything outside of woman home journal and parenting magazine, over half of that entire posting were copy and pasted from medical journals, you can find them all over the place, pick on up and read it. you all want proof, find and show me the proof you keep spouting about all the things they still cant find that makes BM better. That's real specific, 300 unknowns...wow... that's proof enough for me... glad I have all the information. I can imagine being so closed minded.
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Sat, 12-30-2006 - 6:05pm

" Her pediatrician was wrong.

Cathie

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Sat, 12-30-2006 - 6:06pm
Do you have any links to provide or just plageristic blather with no real scientific proof?
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." ~Albert Einstein
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Registered: 12-30-2006
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 6:07pm

My goodness, I was under the impression that there were educated women having babies in the world. I must apologize for that severe misunderstanding. I shouldn't have posted actual medical terminology.

Good luck the babies of the world if this is what is being offered to you.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 6:11pm

"Harvard and Yale Medical Journals"


Those are "undisclosed pharmacutical companies"?


I don't really want to know the name of the company, but since your information is so full of what would sell formula, with no backing other than your "credentials", I wonder of the pharmacitical company MAKES formula.

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Cathie

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Registered: 02-21-2006
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 6:12pm

Project much?

I highly doubt that anyone here is jealous of you because you're educated and well paid. However, I don't think you automatically *deserve* anyone's respect because of your education -- especially when you hop into this thread with wild assertions that you haven't backed up with links to studies and some of the stuff you did post was essentially plagiarized.

I have never seen one of the breastfeeding moms here treat a formula feeding mom as if she's less of a mother than a breastfeeding one. Never.

I'm very sorry that you suffered abuse at the hands of the one who should have been treating you like gold. I don't think that breastfeeding had anything to do with your mother's abuse -- she would have been abusive no matter which way she fed you. And I also think that you are a better and smarter person not because of the way you were fed, but because you made up your mind to overcome adversity.

For a moment, try to take the chip off your shoulder and re-read the thread or other posts in this group. Perhaps you'll see that no one here is calling formula feeding moms bad mothers. They're not. I'm absolutely sure that they love their little ones every bit as much as breastfeeding moms love their babies.

That final FACT is interesting. I'm neither tired nor jealous because I get a good night's sleep pretty much every night -- with my 10 week old breastfeeding, co-sleeping baby!

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Sat, 12-30-2006 - 6:18pm

Copy and paste is fine...as long as links are provided. You, however, did not do so, and furthermore tried to convince everyone here that you, yourself, wrote the post based on your own medical expertise. When asked to back up your claims, you could not. When someone else pointed out that you had plagerised, your retort was an insult and without any proof of your prior claims.

Pointing out the obvious (that you plagerized) isn't an insult.

Funny, I thought they covered plagerising in Comp 1101.

If not, here you go:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/plagiarized
Main Entry: pla·gia·rize
Pronunciation: 'plA-j&-"rIz also -jE-&-
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -rized; -riz·ing
Etymology: plagiary
transitive verb : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
intransitive verb : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
- pla·gia·riz·er noun

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." ~Albert Einstein
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Registered: 02-20-2006
Sat, 12-30-2006 - 6:20pm

Superior intellegence?

Does your computer have spell check?

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." ~Albert Einstein

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