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LafayetteLady -> RE: Bloomberg tells women what to do... (3/25/2013 8:29:23 PM)
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Thanks for the background, but it is still one group pushing their agenda on others, and they shouldn't. My son was not breastfed. After his birth, my beautiful full breasts deflated like a balloon popped by a pin, lol. Regardless, it was not my choice to breastfeed. Before he was born, the nurse had asked if I was planning on breast feeding and I told her no. I didn't hear anymore about it, but that might have been because I nearly decapitated the idiot nurse who kept trying to convince me to have an epidural and be awake for my c-section (I explained anxiety and panic attacks to her multiple times and she just didn't give up).
I have no issue with women who breast feed. That is their choice and they are welcome to it. I will say that while I do understand what is said about breastfeeding, my son's only allergy is hay-fever (which I also have), and when he was a child, he was sick all of his first two years (prior to being in day care, then all hell broke loose). He developed an ear infection when his molars were coming in, so breastfeeding was not going to have prevented either.
Although I'm past child bearing, if I wasn't and a nurse kept trying to push that idea on me, I would throw her out of my room and then insist that I be discharged with a complaint to the hospital. Last I checked, I was still free to make those choices for myself and my child and I wouldn't appreciate someone pushing their view of it on me.
ETA: Every other couple we knew who had children around the same time and chose to breastfeed, their children were sick with something all the time.
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