"She didn't quit bf'ing this time to get pg. She quit because Josie is lactose intolerant."
I call bullshit. Sorry. I don't care if other people BF their kids or not--their kids aren't my problem. But this story is all kinds of fishy.
1. It's extremely unusual for infants that young to be lactose intolerant. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are strongly against it:
"Infants from all parts of the world do tolerate lactose--otherwise they couldn't digest breast milk well. Their bodies make an enzyme, lactase, which enables them to digest the sugar in milk. As a result, in healthy full-term infants lactose intolerance is extremely rare. It is more common in premature babies, who are sometimes lactose intolerant until they begin to approach their original due dates. At that point, their bodies start making lactase."
2. It's possible that she's allergic to milk protein, which is far more common (and which I have firsthand experience with). Maybe the Duggars didn't really differentiate between the two conditions, or maybe the media misreported it. (Unheard of, I know.) In which case, you can still BF if you want to, you just have to reduce or eliminate dairy from your diet. I did it, and while I didn't love it, it was completely doable. Maybe less so if you're also juggling a newborn with special needs, 18 other kids, and a reality show.
If you don't want to BF your kid, then don't, but don't make up stories about it. Maybe that's a function of all of the societal pressure to BF, I don't know.
Confession: I have no idea why I care. It just bothers me when people make isht up and expect everyone to swallow it, I guess. Also, I just dislike them on a visceral level, which is probably a factor.
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