"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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Tue, 01-09-2007 - 5:30pm

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Yep. Ultrasound the day before Connor was born estimated him at 9lbs, he was 8lbs 2oz. Abdominal palpitation by my midwives a few days before Alex was born estimated him at around 9lbs too, he was 10lbs 10ozs.

Just doing my part to hit 1,000. ;P

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Tue, 01-09-2007 - 5:33pm

Depends on your insurance as to how much it costs out of pocket. A typical, un-messed with not drug vaginal birth costs around $8,000-$10,000 if I remember right for the insurance company. As to what it costs you it all depends on your deductibles. My homebirth cost $3,500 and I ended up paying about $1,000 for it personally, my insurance covered the rest. I'm lucky in that my insurance did cover some of it, which is funny since homebirths are way cheaper than hospital births.

-jeanine

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Tue, 01-09-2007 - 5:43pm
I had an u/s the day before DD#2 was born (@37 weeks) and the day before DD#3 was born (@38 weeks).

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Tue, 01-09-2007 - 8:03pm

I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said my dog is smarter than your honor student.

It seems like there are some parallels between that bumper sticker and the proud formula feeder blinkie, yes?

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Tue, 01-09-2007 - 8:07pm
I guess that all depends on how the dog was fed as a puppy ;-)

Isabel






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Tue, 01-09-2007 - 8:09pm

My ultrasound put her at 6 pounds and two weeks later she was 7, or something like that. It was fairly accurate! I have to say that I was very pleased with my birthing experience. I did half and half, and my mother still laughs to this day about the fact that when the contractions were getting too much to bear, I lay my head on the floor with my butt in the air because the floor of the bathroom was cool against my cheek...I was not a happy camper but totally unaware of what was happening around me. I learned that the world could have come to watch and I would not have cared. The epi went fine and I quickly went form 5 to 10 cms and it was time to push...

I would do it again because although it was painful and I tore...it was amazing at how quickly she was there...!

Spud...

PS: I did not know that you could leak in the end and still go to term (although it would have been hard to have convinced me to go longer as it was the hottest summer on record, I was 60 pounds heavier, and I had gestational diabetes with a tendency to have low blood sugar levels if I did not eat on schedule). I was 2 cms dialated though and 100% effaced when I was checked on the 3rd (the day I sprung the leak)...and I was 3 cms when I went into the hospital on the 4th...







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Tue, 01-09-2007 - 8:10pm

>>>I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said my dog is smarter than your honor student.

It seems like there are some parallels between that bumper sticker and the proud formula feeder blinkie, yes?>>>

How is that?

Spud...







Lilypie




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Tue, 01-09-2007 - 8:26pm
Well, to me the blinkie is a response to all the "proud breastfeeding" type blinkies, with a kind of I'm-sick-of-hearing-about-it or get-over-it-tone. The same could be said about the dog and the honor student.
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Tue, 01-09-2007 - 8:29pm

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Here too, and I live in OR which has higher Bfing rates and a fairly-supportive homebirth climate. In real life, I am part of a Bfing organization and still don't hear a lot of negative thigns about formula. Mostly we talk about how to get more information out there. I suppose that is what is defined here as "pressure" but we aren't berating women or supporting the limiting of choices.

Melissa

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Tue, 01-09-2007 - 9:07pm
LOL, that's the

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