"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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Do you mean the New England Journal of Medicine?
Cathie
Provide a link for it then.
-jeanine
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Now THAT one I've heard of. And it's what I found too.
-jeanine
>>I don't think the same thing can be said about anything else WIC provides because once a child gets to the age where he is eating "regular" food, the food WIC provides is generally healthy stuff like milk, cheese, eggs and juice. It's not like WIC is handing out candy bars. <<
But it is still a handout
>>That is absolutely, positively a load of bs. And a doctor-specified menu? Please! Long before formula was available, women were breastfeeding their babies without following any nutritionist's advice. Do you think women in 3rd world countries -- who manage to nourish their babies just fine with breastmilk but may not have enough food themselves -- have a nutritionist around to give them a menu? I don't think so. But their babies do a whole lot better being breastfed than on formula.<<
and before formula, no babies (or children, or adults) had any health problems right?
How what?
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