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Relax, it'll do wonders for your health.
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I really don't get the "they'll cut costs and services" argument, since the EXACT SAME THING happens under a "private" healthcare system.
Oh -- I forgot, if you've got enough money, you still get whatever you want. I forgot about that.
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#2 Insurance companies don't need the power to throw you in jail when they can simply deny funding for treatments and pretty much sentence you to death.
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11/29/09
That's why women have boobs. Was some woman's breast milk made of poison or something? How could this even be an issue?
I'm going to get a glass of water... is that cool? Wanna make sure I'm not taking my life in my own hands.
We need a new thing to worry about now that Global Warming has been proven a fraud.
11/29/09
I have a friend who had to go to bottle with her daughter because the baby was actually LOSING weight not gaining it because her milk was just not providing enough nutrients. So, yeah, there are really legit reasons not to breast feed that sometimes a mother can't help. She had a bitchy mom in the pediatricians office make some nasty comment to her about using the bottle and she tore her a new one.
So, though this study (which is really not that earth shattering) is great let's just leave our opinions on breast feeding to ourselves, shall we?
11/29/09
If her child wasn't gaining enough weight, it's because she wasn't getting enough.
Tell her to step up the feeding and pump 24/7 next time. She owes it to her child.
Women who choose not to feed their children naturally when they have perfectly functioning breasts make me sick.
11/29/09
B) This is what she told me, I don't know anything else beyond the situation than that or any of the details. I was just using it as an example of the myriad of reasons a women might use formula that are perfectly reasonable.
C) Regardless, my point was that it's nobody's business weather a woman breast feeds or formula feeds but the mother and child and that the judgmental tones needs to end.
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My kid lost weight after birth as well, and I have pictures of him looking like he is literally starving to death. It was a really hard road.
He's now four years old and about four feet tall. Some kids are like that.
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The point is lots of modern mothers don't believe they have the time or ability. Leaving aside any arguments about whether they should therefore have 'chosen' to have a child at all if they cannot even dedicate this basic time to it that our eldest ancestors managed. The issue comes down to; if you cannot or will not breastfeed (I have known young mothers who find the concept disgusting... let an honest anthropologist dwell on that) then you aren't supporting your child as well as a mother who can and will. Accept that and carry on. Most find it an uncomfortable truth precisely because they know it.
11/29/09
Just, let the kid not thrive. No big deal if it suffers permanent brain damage from not getting enough food in the crucial first year. Accept it and carry on.
Good advice.
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The decision as to what is best is far more complicated than just looking at the nutrient benefits of breastmilk vs. formula. This is a very personal decision, influenced by each individual Mom's situation, and many times, breastmilk just isn't the best answer.
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I'm still working on the laser-firing model.
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but also lack of breast feeding and the way parents coddle their kids now a days has bred a few generations of wusses.
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Me, I'm a big breastfeeding supporter-- for way longer than most people manage to do it for. There is an anecdote-- the only women who breastfeed their children to 5 are k!ung bushwomen & female anthropologists. There is a lot of evidence pointing to 5 being a good age to shoot for-- but that just brings in social taboo as a new pressure on mothers...
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I ended up wandering the halls looking for an empty conference room and hoping like hell it had a door that locked.
Most didn't. I was walked in on quite a bit.
12/01/09
Are you suggesting that contemporary women bring their nursing infants with them to the office, thus enabling them to breast feed on demand like frontierswomen who were with their children all day, whether in the home or in the field? Because that almost never happens.
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11/29/09
Besides, the argument between breast and bottle has been going on for decades with the pendulum swinging back and forth. What that suggests to me is that one methd may be better, but not by alot.
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#@!
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