CynthiaWVirginia
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Joined: 2/28/2010 From: West Virginia, USA Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster WTF is the mother doing feeding formula to a 10-day old baby? You're kidding, right? Mine had formula from the very first day, and yet I told the hospital where I had my baby that he was to be breast fed only. Nurses kept bottle feeding him formula before bringing him to me, or else bottle feeding him afterward. When American mothers leave hospitals, they are laden with advertisements of things to get for the baby, free magazines with more advertisements, and some free formula. Even when I emphatically stated that my kid was to be breast fed, those formulas made it home in my bags anyway. Some women are back to work very soon after having a baby. We are not allowed to cart them off to work with us, and unless babies are fed about every two hours at first our milk doesn't come in good. No job I have ever been at would supply a refrigerator for the expressed milk, nor allow us half an hour breaks every two hours to bring our milk in. This is America...where women have to breastfeed babies in toilets...or are peer pressured into feeding from the breast at home and with formula in a bottle while in public. Most of us who are forced to do both have to stop breastfeeding by 3 or 6 months, because the baby prefers the easy drink from a bottle. There are many reasons why some women have to use formula. A married girlfriend of mine was ordered by her husband not to breastfeed their newborn. Not even for six weeks. He said...her breasts belonged to him and he refused to share them with an infant. Baby gets the bottle, daddy gets the breast. Messed up, isn't it?
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