"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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Now you are saying that I don't make the needs of my baby?
Did you read what I said?
Formula isn't substandard if your baby is starving because you don't make enough milk for them it isn't substandard if you don't have right balance of nutrients in you breast milk so that you baby can grow and be healthy
Yes, formula is still substandard.
Sigh, another fly by night poster.
So those breastfeeding moms who choose to look down on those mothers who choose to formula feed, need to stop and think… I am eating right for my baby.
Please point out anyone here who looks down upon mothers who FF.
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
OMG!
Superior intelligence????? ROFL! I'll ignore the horrendous spelling errors in your posts, since my 11yo dd is considered profoundly gifted yet is dyslexic and can't spell her way out of a box....But the sloppy grammar, poor sentence structure and completely off the wall comments such as:
**Children who kill others are raised by people like you**
**removing myself from this sight, not worth lowering my own IQ for you**
and **my condolences to your children and FF moms.**
Hardly speak of someone who is highly intelligent.
The funniest thing, IMHO, is the first segment, which was left out of the posting:
"Infant formulas have a difficult gap to fill. They must mimic breast milk as closely as possible. Yet it is difficult to produce a formula equal in all respects to breast milk, because its exact chemical composition is not yet known."
RPS
>>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<<
Well for someone so uber-qualified, you have an exceptionally terrible command of the written langauge. Your grammar, sentence structure, spelling, and use of punctuation are the worst I've seen on this board in a very long time. You also apparently have no background in philosophy, as your logic is seriously flawed and fallacious, as well.
Further, you plagiarized that information you posted. It is illegal to print information without referencing it. You tried to use medical journals that do not exist as evidence of your extremely false claims. You have lost all credibility in this debate.
Close minded? Us? You insist upon a debte platform that I can guarantee you cannot support, verbally attack all of us, and then think we are the ones who need to broaden our herizons? Hmmmmmmmm....
Edited 12/30/2006 7:10 pm ET by mrsmichael6300
Cathie
LOL.
Cathie
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