Topic : 10/07 The Latest Debates

I hope I never have the misforturne to take one of my children to a doc like you.  I've actually been thanked by the docs for breastfeeding in their waiting room because they want the low income patients they have to understand that it is natural and that they don't have to resort to formula.  And BTW, I don't have small breasts that I'm happy are swelled from milk.  My dream for when I'm done with my child bearing is to have the dang things reduced!  Besides, once you get past the first couple of months of breastfeeding engorgement isn't much of an issue anyway. 

Perhaps you are fixated with breasts as sexual objects.  I guarantee  you that most breastfeeding mothers will tell you that their breasts have become strictly functional objects for them.  If your fixation with breasts as sexual objects is causing you distress perhaps you should stay home to do your eating.   

Did you know that humans are the only mammals who practice premature weaning of their children?   Biologically speaking, the human species is mean to wean somewhere between 2 and 7 years of age, with 3 and 7 both being extremes...2 being the youngest and 7 being the oldest.  Most wean, if allowed to, around 3 and 4 years of age. 

It's wrong to say that it's the mom not wanting to let go.  She is biologically providing her child with the food that he was intended to recieve for 2-7 years (depending on the child and the child's needs).   The World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding for a minimum of  2 years, and, thereafter, as long as is mutually accepted by both mother and child.   

Breastfeeding for the amount of time that our bodies are designed to recieve and process breastmilk is not going to "screw your poor child up".   It is how it's biologically supposed to be.  

I, also, have never seen a woman NOT nurse discreetly.   

When I nurse my children in public I don't cover up with a blanket...who wants a blanket on their head while they're eating?  Nobody...certainly not a baby who is learning about their environment and wants to be social while they eat (again, who doesn't like to be social over a meal?).   But, you can nurse discreetly without covering up.   There is no breast visible when I nurse...you can see my shirt, and the back of my baby's head.   

I'm glad to hear that so many of us feel this way. 

I think that condoms are somthing that should be given.  i'm a student, and i personally believe that pre-martial relations are wrong, but no all teenagers see it that way and if they want to do something they are going to do it. I know that there are people that are going to say well kids are going to drink anyways so we may as well give them a six pack. No you shouldn't, but if you teach your kids responsibility, its not necessary.  But that is something you have a little more control over, saying no to teenagers is not going to end the world. I also really think that adults are not giving teenagers too much credit.  Everyhing in our society glorifies sex, so most teenagers have thought about sex way before they get a condom in hand.  Also if girls can get birth control without parental permission i don't see how this is any different.  Its an extra preccaution.   

Dear Rebecca, 

I am against breast feeding in public, but when I read your message I do realize that there are some women that can do it discretely.  I speak for myself only, I do appreciate that. I dont mind seeing feeding her child, as long as I dont have to see it for myself.  I think if more women were like you then this would NOT be an issue. I am not saying that you have to hide from the world when your child is eating, it is just out of courtesy for people like myself to do it in a proper fashion.  I am not a mean or evil person I am just a person that chooses not to do it.  I dont care what anyones says, my children are just as good as a breast fed baby.  That is wrong for some of these women to say that my child is not a smart or healthy as a breastfed baby.  I have three wonderful children, very healthy, they eat healthy and they all were fed with power milk.  I did not feel comfortable breast feeding, but does that make me a bad person? NO! It just means that I choose not to do it.  My daughter was in NICU when she was born, she was very sick.. They were going to have to do surgery on her, but she ended up getting well (by prayers to God) NOT breastmilk.  Not once did I breast feed her and she is healthy happy and a wonderful child.  SHe got better before some of the other babies in NICU with her and they were breast fed, so I dont see what the harm in formula milk is.  I just wished that some of these women on here could just listen to us.  BUt all they can do is call me names and say that I am a selfish person because I choose not to breast feed.  I give any woman a thumbs up for doing it, but I choose not to do it.   Ask yourself, does that make me a horrible or evil person?