Can anyone ask a specific question about formula feeding without being tagged by the Breast Militia?

Question

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Tsk tsk. NO respect, whatsoever. How do you expect anyone to respect you? That's pretty much why I don't. Respect goes both ways. It's their choice. Suppose this questioner has had a double masectomy? Do you think she wants to hear "Breastfeed this that and the third?"

psionyx...No baby smells like a breezy meadow. They all have their little odors. I've fed with both formula and breastmilk, and I never sniffed my kids bums to see what difference the smell is. Poop is poop, piss is piss. Anyone who compares the smell of human waste to a meadow needs medication.

Answer 1

I'm with you on this one. These breast feeding freaks are a pain in the ****. Like you say, it's freedom of choice and not only that, maybe you can't breastfeed. When I had my second child I was unable to breastfeed because I hadn't produced enough milk due to illness through my pregnancy. Don't get me wrong, I did try but to no avail. All my daughter got out of my breast was blood which obviously isn't good. In the end my doctor said that I had to feed her on formula milk.
These people need to get off their high horses. If they had a brain to think before speaking, they would probably realise that maybe there is a good reason for a mother not to breastfeed!!!

Answer 2

I don't think psionyx was quite talking about smelling their bums. But breastfed babies vs formula fed do smell different. Their breath is sweeter.
As to Clever, I resent being called a cow. Everyone on here goes on and on about how it is a personal choice and some mothers just can't... That is fine, I understand that some women just can't breastfeed. But to choose not to because of what it could do to your breast is just selfish and I pray to God you never have children.
You must excuse some of us breastfeeding mothers but there is a pride that goes along with it. We have made a choice to give our children the very best from the start. Look at any can of formula, they all say, while breast milk is best, we are the best formula because.... I find pride and bragging rights in saying my little guy is 5 1/2 months old and has never had a drop of formula. It hasn't always been easy and there are times I would have loved to just mix a bottle and be done, but it has been so worth it.
And when a question is poised about formula and 6 of 23 replies mention breast feeding, that is not a militia. No one said you were a bad mom, no one forced anything one you. It was just said that breast is best. Find one place where it says it isn't. Where it says formula is actually better for your baby and I bet a lot of women would stop talking! Me included.

Answer 3

I don't know what SMA or Cow & Gate are, so I didn't answer the question. I counted only 6 comments about breasfeeding out of 20 answers. However I do not see why anybody would mention breastfeeding is best when that clearly wasn't part of the question. I breastfeed and that was my choice, however I was in a position to do that. A lot of moms aren't and maybe it's not comfortable for her. you don't want somebody who's breastfeeding a baby to not want to, then get frustrated and take it out on the baby or anybody else & get depressed.

I don't see the point that it makes you not respect women that do breastfeed though. I never push breastfeeding on anybody. Don't be mad at the whole, when it's only a select few.

Also, to Clever, what do you think those things hanging off your chest are for? They weren't put there just to look nice. Your comment about not being a cow is ridiculous!

Answer 4

Not me - since I don't know the difference (and I don't know one of the brands mentioned) I wouldn't have had any advice to give her.
But everyone has a right to add their two cents and collect their two points even if the answer isn't relevant to the question.

But I do need to say this to Clever: breastfeeders are not cows. Everyone know that cows no longer feed their own offspring. The farmers take them away to regulate their intake and their mother's milk is used to feed humans. I feed my own offspring not another species.

edited to add: I once posted a question like this before but about breastfeeding. I saw questions from people who were breastfeeding toddlers and bunches of people were getting on there saying 'Wean, wean, wean, you should have weaned your kid at 12 months like a normal person'

Answer 5

well, never having used either of the 2, I never would have answered the question. I'm sure if she wanted to be beaten over the head by the 'breast militia' as you coined them, she would have added breastmilk to her question?

Reminds me of a government south of our border.

(edit) tsk tsk to Clever. I'm a breastfeeding mom and quite frankly, the comment 'I am not a cow' is a bit 'Bottle militia'

Answer 6

Yeah, I'm really sick of the breast feeding police as well. They are so tiring. Usually though I find that the people who are most vocal about making people breastfeed are either 1) people who don't have kids themselves, or 2) parents for whom the small-children phase was long, long ago.

Answer 7

i would never say anything to someone who hasn't breast fed out of the blue but i feel like i am under attack for wanting the best for my son i breast fed my son until he was 16 months and only stopped because i am pregnant breast feeding is the best thing i don't care if you do it or not its not my child all i have to say is that i think alot of these people who can't breast fed because it is too painful or whatever is bs what would have happened before formula????? someone else would have nursed your child for the odd one in one thousand person who couldn't but i think too many people CAN'T breast feed bc its not convient and bc its too painful and just plain too much work i dare say most that can't do it would if they didn't have other options my breasts bled and i fed him anyways it was horrible but i pulled through and after that it got much better but don't blame the moms who are doing this for their children to want that for yours i think they as well as me just can't understand why anyone wouldn't do it

Answer 8

It is kind of sad. My mother COULDN'T nurse (no milk came, period). And the breast militia really scarred her for life (really. She still cries when she talks about it, and this was 27 years ago!) because she decided that bottle feeding was preferable to starving us to death. I turned out just fine: I'm intelligent, I'm not overweight, I don't get any sicker than my breastfed peers, and my mom and I have a great relationship.

Answer 9

You can ask. I couldn't nurse so I'm not one of the Breast Militia.

You're right, no baby smells like a breezy meadow, no matter what you feed him/her.

Answer 10

ughhh i totally agree, the nazi's come out of nowhere and just try to make formula feeding moms feel like shi*! even when i was in the hosp after i had my daughter, their breastfeeding consultants were all over me!! i breastfed for 3 weeks, then switched to formula. it just wasnt working for me and my little one, but when i decided to switch, it killed me. i cried my eyes out bc i felt so guilty bc of how the consultants and other breastfeeding moms made me feel about it.

i think how you raise your child and how you feed them, etc, is your own choice. i respect these peoples opinions, but they come at everyone being very rude, which i DONT respect.