Just a poll. Nothing more. Doesn't matter if it was LLL, a lactation consultant in the hospital, a nurse or just a random breast terrorist out in the Wal-Mart attacking you about Jr. drinking a bottle.
2006-09-21 04:54:46 · 19 answers · asked by Goddess of Nuts PBUH 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
I realize some of these stories are painful for some of you to recount, and I applaud your willingness to share the malice and barbaric treatment you received at the hands of these people. Thank you all for your stories.
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2006-09-21 05:06:51 · update #1
Oh my goodness, aren't we bottle feeders the worst mothers in the world! LOL!! You are so funny! And SO right! I can't breastfeed because of medications that I have to take. My baby is very healthy, happy, growing like a weed.... Check out my 360 page & see if you see any "damage" from my feeding him from a bottle.
Breast terrorist. I'm still laughing!
Hope you have a good day because you certainly have made me smile!! :-)
2006-09-21 05:00:44 · answer #1 · answered by Michelle *The Truth Hurts 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
LMAO So true! When I had my daughter, I was open minded about trying breast feeding. The lactation specialist was like Hitler. No kidding. I have small nipples, my daughter wouldn't latch, she's screaming, and as a first time mom, I felt so bad for her because she was hungry and that Hitler of a lactation specialist sat there and MADE me try for over an hour...with a screaming newborn! I screamed at her to get me a bottle or I'll get the ones out of my diaper bag that I brought. I have a picture of me feeding her using our own stuff because she refused to bring me a bottle with formula.
Turned out, I have clogged ducts in my boobs and my milk NEVER EVER EVER even came in. I even tried at home to breastfeed alone, and nothing happened.
I plan on breast feeding this time, but I'm refusing a lactation specialist and I don't want anyone in the room. I want to do it on my own instead of someone there starring at me and forcing me into doing things and just being in that uncomfortable situation.
2006-09-21 05:00:10 · answer #2 · answered by jevic 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually my wife experienced the opposite with all of our children. Our eldest is 19, and youngest is 9. She even got grief from her mother and Aunts, about how gross it was...
I think it is up to you, yes is is better for the baby (at least in the first 6-8 weeks), but some women just can't or don't want do it. That is their choice. I would tell them to mind their own business.
I do find it disturbing that some women breast feed children until they start school. My sister-in-law is a teacher, and during a Parent/Teacher conference, a mother was accompanied by her 4-5 year old. The child kept whining "Mommy, I'm thirsty!". My sister in law was shocked when the woman whipped out a breast and let the child stand next to her and breast feed while they were talking...
2006-09-21 05:11:35 · answer #3 · answered by Biggen 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I actually got attitude with the lactation counselor in the hospital. The nurses themselves were great, didn't bat an eye when I was asked if I was going to nurse or bottle feed. The lactation counselor decided to "pay me an informational visit". When she started in on all the ways formula was wrong and would forever hurt my child, I looked her in the eye and asked her if I was going to suddendly die for no reason other thant the fact that my mother was horrible and fed me formula. She wrinkled her nose and said, "No, but I would imagine that you would want more for your child. Breast milk is the only nutrition your newborn needs. She doesn't need chemicals, blah blah blah" So I told her where she can stick her breast pump. She was such a freakin COW.
It worse at home. I have a gay male friend who can't stand children try to tell me how I should feed my child. 1st, you hate kids. 2nd, you're a man. 3rd IT"S NONE OF YOUR GD BUSINESS. Needless, to say he was taken aback and hasn't pursued efforts on coverting me to breast feed. The crazy women at the mall that wanted to lecture me about my bottle feeding. I really just started to tell them in no uncertain terms to F*** Off.
I fully support those women who breast feed. That's fabulous. I fully support women who bottle feed. I also support those who do both. It's no one else's decision to make but the mother's.
I think I would've gone completely mad had I tried to nurse. I had such bad post partum that I would've truly gone off the deep end being the sole food source for a newborn.
2006-09-21 09:00:57 · answer #4 · answered by siobhann1013 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Omg, the lactation consultant was a biotch. I wanted to do both because I wasn't sure if I was going to go back to work or not. Well, the biotch had me in tears 15 hrs after I gave birth. My husband would have to get the head nurse to get her out of my room. I was on the phone w/ family when she came in and stood there asking me if I could get off the phone so she could talk to me. ( mind you, we tried for this child for 7 yrs) I was so upset!
Come to find out that I couldn't breastfeed because my son was allergic to Milk.
Just making me think of that biotch makes me mad all over again.
2006-09-21 05:04:05 · answer #5 · answered by jakesmom 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I havent had a single person comment to me about bottle feeding. I breastfed in the beginning, when we would go out I'd bring breastmilk in a bottle. Ive never had anybody comment on bottle feeding but I live in an area where breastfeeding isnt really accepted YET. Ive also never had anybody tell me anything about nursing my kids. Maybe they just dont want to talk to me? lol
2006-09-21 04:59:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ladies at the hospital acted like I was horrible, family members acted like I was ruining her chance at life, but they got over it, and so will all the people attacking you. Look at any playground, can you tell the difference in a 7 yr old who was bottle fed and one that was breastfed?
2006-09-21 04:58:19 · answer #7 · answered by customcat2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Lactation Consultant. My biggest concern for the baby is that it gets fed. I don't care how the baby eats, just as long as it eats. I follow up with ALL moms on my floor and make sure they are doing their job of feeding their babies correctly, however they choose. My job is to support all new moms.
2006-09-21 05:32:57 · answer #8 · answered by medicinewoman249 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The nurses in the hospital urged me to breastfeed. No one else did though. As another said, you just can't win. a friend of mine is breastfeeding and was told at the country club if she did it again she would be thrown out. she wasn't being nasty about it. She had a blanket over herself and the child.
2006-09-21 05:05:16 · answer #9 · answered by AsianPersuasion :) 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Great change - we are now Boob Militia instead of Boob Nazis - we are making progress here.
I have to say - I'm seeing comments about the LCs at the hospitals. Boy, it's amazing how different hospitals can be. The one I went to asked me the feeding choice during admission and the LC only visited when I asked for her. The hospital my sister had her children in (only about 3 miles away) discouraged breastfeeding entirely.
I have not been criticized in public for breastfeeding nor have I made comments to bottlefeeders.
2006-09-21 05:00:23 · answer #10 · answered by AlongthePemi 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋