Quote From: jenmousie No one gets offended by a baby bottle.
NOT TRUE!!! I get very offended every single time I see a child eating from a bottle. And it isn't the same. I wasn't able to develop a good nursing relationship with my first child, so I pumped and fed her with a bottle. Because she was eating from a bottle she had excess gas, spit-up and ear infections. Nursing at the breast eliminates most of the causes of those problems.
Then schedule your outings around the baby's' feeding time
Because breastmilk is better digested by a child's immature digestive tract it doesn't just sit there like formula. Formula feed babies are easier to "schedule" because they are being given a food that does not digest well and sits in their stomachs for longer because of it. Breast feed babies do eat more frequently and it is impossible to ALWAYS schedule feedings around other activites. Add in to the mix the occassional growth spurt where children demand more feedings for a day or two and you can't know when your child will need to eat next.
The best solution would be for folks to educate themselves about the benefits of feeding at the breast (the breast milk is great, getting it straight from the source is better). That and get over this immature idea that breasts are strictly for sexual pleasure. No wonder half the world thinks we are insane here in the US. Our celebraties can prance around half naked and that doesn't bother us but a woman breastfeeding causes all this debate!
I too am extremely offended when I see a baby being bottle fed or with a pacifier stuck in its mouth. I think it is ugly and disgusting.
It inteferes with how I am trying to raise my children.. to be healthy, to value babies and people, to discern what is true (breasts and mothers arms) and what is fake (bottles, pacifiers, baby swings, car seats as infant holders).
If you decide to have a baby....stay home, breastfeed, hold your baby, give of your self to your baby and someday he/she will do the same loving things for you when you are old and can't feed yourself, turn over in bed or even to talk to the person who you are completely in LOVE with and dependent upon.
