Bloomberg knows breast?

Wiscisbliss

There is a ton of guilting out there on breastfeeding.  You are really encouraged to do it (prenatal, classes, hosptial, yada yada).  "Breast is best." 

I took this to heart and breastfed my son.  But, when I went back to work I was having a really hard time pumping enough for him to eat.  It was awful.  I had to work an extra 90 minutes a day and pump in the middle of the night in order to have enough time to pump what he needed to eat.  Now I just pump once over lunch and what I pump he gets and the rest has to be formula.  I think everyone is happier. 

So, while I am sure that breastfeeding is good for moms and babies, it isn't a very reasonable expectation of most working moms.  Heck, most work places don't even have a place to pump other than in a bathroom.  I am sitting in a storage closet pummping right now.  So, give them a guilt trip and force them to breastfeed so they can feel worse about it when they have to give it up in 6 weeks when they go back to work.  Garbage. 

angelstar975

This makes me ridiculously angry. Seriously, what the fuuuck? What a woman chooses to feed her child is her business... the mayor of NYC should not be getting involved in any way, shape or form. I don't plan to breastfeed. I just don't want to. I don't give a fuuuck who judges me for it. If I were a patient in that hospital, I'd be telling the nurses to go screw themselves and just give me the bottle. Or I'd have my own can of formula in my room so I could just make my own bottles.

angelstar975

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_bloomberg-knows-breast?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:78f4e9a0-eac0-4847-9172-57dde995d50cPost:1d438721-811f-4408-93dd-5fdab67d1b82">Re: Bloomberg knows breast?</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Bloomberg knows breast? : You realize that they'd just be doing their job, right?  I mean, I think it's ridiculous, but it's not the nurses who came up with it.
Posted by djhar[/QUOTE]

I don't really care. I'm not going to be lectured and talked down to because I want to forumla feed vs. breast feed. Maybe I'd sit through it once because it's "their job" but once I've heard it, telling me again is nothing but condescending. I'm not saying my reaction would necessarily be right, but I just know how angry I'd get, and that's likely what would happen.

PrincessJas

Stay tuned for the next edition of Douchebag Men on Power Trips: taking away women's rights to vote and to own property.  

skl14

The lecturing part is awful, but I'm glad they won't be handing out the extra bottles to take home. Clearly any new mom can go and buy formula, and the hospital will feed the new babies formula if need be. It's the corporations that started giving formula to new moms in order to entice new customers, and they have. I think all the mom's should decide how they want to feed their babies, but there are health benefits to breastfeeding so hospitals shouldn't be promoting formula unless the woman/baby needs it. Forcing nuses to lecture people is stupid. 

junieolive

I posted this link on Facebook today.  Most people were as outraged as I was.  How dare they SCOLD a woman who gave birth about this!  I even had a friend say that the hospital would call and check up on her after she had her babies and shame her about her choice to wean at a certain time, and try to shame her into continuing until the babies were older. Ridiculous, I am getting really pissed off lately about men deciding it's the 1800's.