"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: 12-12-2006
Tue, 01-02-2007 - 10:22pm

"Maybe you are confusing WIC and other forms of assistance? (food stamps, medicaid, cash benefit and daycare assistance?)"

Entirely possible... like I said I was getting the info second hand, never looked into local requirements personally

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Registered: 12-12-2006
Tue, 01-02-2007 - 10:23pm

1st, 2nd, irrelevent 3rd, 4th.

I can live with that.

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Registered: 12-12-2006
Tue, 01-02-2007 - 10:25pm

"Sergeant Breastmilk?"

I know none of us are as intelligent as she is ;) but I think she meant *surrogate* breastmilk (aka donor milk)

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Registered: 12-12-2006
Tue, 01-02-2007 - 10:29pm

"I don't think it's ridiculous at all for a tax payer to not want to support a FF who is perfectly capable of feeding breastmilk to her baby. I don't support mandatory BF for WIC mothers since I know alot of them are employed in jobs that make BF (specifically pumping) difficult, but it's pretty absurd not to see the absurdity in using government resources to replace a FREE substance with one that's expensive and inferior. I don't find that being a case of a woman being dictated to; I find BF support among WIC clients to be a fiscally sound use of tax dollars. If she doesn't want to breastfeed, she is free to buy her own formula."

BFing support is not what she was suggesting. That's all fine and well, I just said I think it's silly to try to mandate bfing as a requirement to get support in the first place.... I think we agree here. Heck, I would say many taxpayers don't want to support someone who has children they can't afford to feed at all, regardless of what the child is fed for the first 6 mos.

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Registered: 12-12-2006
Tue, 01-02-2007 - 10:34pm

>>If the first best is unavailable b/c mom's had a mastectomy, does that make formula #1 because the first best availability is an irrelevent 3rd? Nope.

Probably full of grammatical expressive errors, but hopefully the message is there or someone will help me out =)<<

I wasn't implying that formulas becomes #1 by default or something, just pointing out that when the first three are unavailable, formula does become the next best thing.... I was commenting on the availability of donor milk as it had been thrown out there as a viable solution on a number of occasions. I wanted to clarify just how available it is, and the fact that in some instances/areas it is still not that prevelant. It does not effect the hierarchy in *general* just for an *individual* situation. Hope that helps.

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Tue, 01-02-2007 - 11:21pm

Hold up a sec. I *never* suggested making breastfeeding mandatory for WIC clients. Never.

I don't mind my tax money going to help people who use WIC; it's the price I pay for being a US citizen. However, I don't like my money going for something that the client could provide herself. I agree with Steph that women that *choose* formula when they're capable of breastfeeding should not look to WIC to provide the formula. Of course, that'll happen when monkeys fly out of my butt.

I think overall WIC does a great job providing breastfeeding information and support; I used to volunteer as a breastfeeding peer counselor myself.

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Registered: 12-14-2000
Tue, 01-02-2007 - 11:40pm
Strangely, I wasn't feeling stupid or inferior when I didn't understand what sergeant breastmilk was. But that's probably because my inferior intellectual ability didn't allow me to ponder it too long. Would've made my brain hurt.
 

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Wed, 01-03-2007 - 9:42am
Ah, okay. I had visions of a new public service announcement. "Atten-SHUN! Sergeant Breastmilk here, telling you to breastfeed or drop and give me 20!"

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 01-03-2007 - 11:48am
Yes, I suppose Sergeant Breastmilk

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Registered: 02-20-2006
Wed, 01-03-2007 - 1:23pm

BWAAA HA HA HA HA

I thought the exact same thing, LOL!!!!

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