spcasm's Blog

especially when it comes to breastfeeding.

such a dilema will likely make or break the length of time successfully breastfeeding.

Your show aired a comment on breaks for working MOMs  to breastfeed.   as compared  to 'smoke' breaks.....Bonding with baby and expensive formulas would dictate this is the correct but time-consuming, old-fashioned duty of  todays  busy MOMS..With disposable diapers, automatic washers and dryers,  speed of 'quick' meals, there is time to breastfeed. Men don't realize the pain of engorgement, and best have a bag of those frozen peas  ready. Babies on a regular feeding schedule would easily be able to feed every four hours, if ya got the right nanny.

 Having successfully breastfed my last two babies, I can tell you personally, I woulda never been able to work eight hour job and be successful to breastfeed!   ...whether it be using a manual or electric breastpump to get me thru the workday....you loose the natural immunitys breastmilk is said to carry if you introduce two formulas to baby,  Even some babies have milk intolerance, their formula being really really expensive, making one think that breastfeeding woulda been the correct decision.

If you are so lucky as to have another person to 'bring' the baby to your workplace in order to bring in that second income, I am totally for it...Some places of employment state:  'we don't have to give you a break, and I have worked for some ten hour job in manufacturing that let  the line go down every two hours, so productivity is kept up, by drinking lottsa fluids, esp. in hot weather.

Only parents would understand that bottle babies are happy, too, but the bonding experience of breastfed babies cannot be denied...what of the babies right to breastfeed, especially, say if its the  'last'   baby  due to a    tube-tying or vasectomy decison ! You would like to enjoy the moment of having those diapering, feeding, playful times.

New Mom's are given the milk-stopping  pill now-a-days to STOP Mother natures' instinctive milk production for the new mom...then ya can really dry up.

..If you must be a parent- go with Mother Nature!  Its great for the uterus contracting back to normal' and will give you a glow, only other breastfeeding  Moms have  the knowledge of.  .      .

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