Heart vs. Head: The work status decision

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Heart vs. Head: The work status decision
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Tue, 01-17-2006 - 1:03pm
Did you make your decision to SAH/WAH/WOH ft/pt based primarily on objective/tangible factors, or with your heart?

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Registered: 06-04-2004
Sat, 01-28-2006 - 12:39pm

In other words- you could have raised him- just not in the manner in which you'd have preferred- like I had said.

Wytchy

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Sat, 01-28-2006 - 1:52pm
Of course, most lactation professionals recommend waiting until at least six weeks to introduce the bottle to prevent breast rejection. If long term breastfeeding is your goal, waiting until at least six weeks to introduce the bottle is the safest choice.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Sat, 01-28-2006 - 1:55pm
Or maybe she meant that he would have been an entirely different person without those outside influences, so she wouldn't have raised "him," she would have raised a different version of "him."
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Registered: 01-10-2006
Sat, 01-28-2006 - 1:55pm

Excellent point.

It also happens to be one of the main reasons *I* SAH. I simply could not raise my children in the way I feel is best while WOH. That doesnt negate the fact that I still *could* raise them, if forced to WOH. It just wouldnt be ideal, IMO.

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Registered: 01-13-2006
Sat, 01-28-2006 - 2:30pm
for my kids there are several people who "have direct, hands on, interaction with my kids" and even more so the older they get. alot of times i am not even in the equation - so using your criteria, they are certainly not helping me, im no where around. if there is something one of my kids doesnt want to talk to me about i like knowing they have so many other people in their lives who they can go to for guidance. and certainly there are also people who are a support to me in helping me raise my kids - in our family we just have both. so for our family it is not semantics, it is reality.
Jennie
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 01-28-2006 - 2:56pm

My experience is different. I had one kid who was fine with taking a bottle and one who would never take a bottle. That doesn't make it any more "false" than your own personal experience.

Just about every source I've ever heard of recommends introducing a bottle at around 6 weeks if you don't intend to exclusively breastfeed, simply because it is not an easy feat to get an exclusively breastfed baby to take a bottle if you don't. That's a generalization, and it's not false.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 01-28-2006 - 2:58pm
Right. Precisely because it's not easy to get an exclusively breastfed baby to take a bottle.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Sat, 01-28-2006 - 3:28pm

It certainly does.


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Sat, 01-28-2006 - 3:34pm

Your welcome.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Sat, 01-28-2006 - 3:42pm

There is more to raising a child than them living,

PumpkinAngel

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