women why do you not like breastfeeding?

Question

when your are breastfeeding or telling another women
your experience if they chose to bottle feed is that their chose
is our God given right to breastfeed and plus that
why we have breast.whyare some many women angry about
it.

Answer 1

I think what makes some people mad, is that sometimes there are several factors driving the woman's choice not to breast feed or have issues that prevent breastfeeding and often people are preaching on here about how you need to breast feed. Sometimes the preaching ends up getting to the point where others are putting down the people who choose not to breast feed and making them feel like they are not doing a good job parenting or making them feel insufficient.

People need to remember that there are often many factors that lead to a woman not choosing or not being able to breast feed and not beat down on them so much.

Answer 2

I don't really understand your question but breastfeeding doesn't bother me. I wanted to breastfeed my son but couldn't and sometimes I can't figure out why some people are against formula feeding. It wouldn't be an alternative if it was so bad for them. I had a high risk pregnancy and ended up being induced at 37 weeks, then had a c-section and on top of that was knocked out because I felt pain. So my ouldn't have my breast right away and I think that it had to do something with my problems of trying to breast feed him since he ws gived a bottle for the first 24 hours. I tried very hard for the first 2 weeks to breastfeed and you know sometimes it just doesn't work for the mother or baby for some reason or another. I chose to formula feed because I had to not because I didn't want to breastfeed. I already feel like I missed out on something so it doesn't make me feel too good when I hear some people are so against formula feeding.

For all the women out there that have been sucessful at breastfeeding I say Kudo's to them!! My next experience I'm sure will be very different!

Answer 3

I am not nearly to the breastfeeding point yet (I'm only 18 weeks preggo). However, remember that not all women are able to breastfeed. I know plenty of women who suffered from ppd and opted to go on medication rather than breastfeed, since a healthy mom is better than breast milk. I also know women who were simply unable to produce milk in enough quantity to actually feed their baby. I am tired of the fights between women about breastfeeding or not breastfeeding or staying at home vs. working. We each do what is best for us given our circumstances. I think we need to stop judging each other and realize how difficult it is to be a woman today! We get enough discrimination from outside sources, why are we bickering internally?

Answer 4

There are a lot of people out there that do judge you for breastfeeding. My MIL made me go sit in a back room with the door closed to feed my first daughter. I do not go up to a woman bottle feeding a child and tell her I don't approve. Some women can't breastfeed, and others choose not to. I get it. Yet it is not uncommon to get dirty looks and stray comments when breastfeeding in public. If my daughter is hungry, I feed her. If you don't want to eat your meals in the bathroom, don't expect my child to. I think it boils down to people not being comfortable with their own bodies. America seems to be the only country that only sees breasts as purely sexual.

Answer 5

I breastfed both my babies until they weaned themselves (14 mos and 9 mos, respectively). It's a woman's complete right to choose whether to breastfeed of bottlefeed. Just because a woman chooses to bottlefeed the psycho lactation freaks claim the child will be a maniac, homicidal, and be a moron...and if you DO breastfeed then the mom is indecent for breastfeeding in a public place. Oh the horror of seeing (covered or not) what women's breasts doing what they were created for! EEEKKK! Call the cops--there's a woman with her breast exposed under a blanket! LOL!!!

Anywhoo, women can do what they want...where ever a woman/baby are allowed, that is where they should be allowed to breastfeed...if you don't like it, you can always look away.

Answer 6

A lot of women are afraid it will make their boobs look ugly, like a question just posted on here. And then there's the women who think breastfeeding is too time consuming. And there's the women who are going back to work and say that pumping is too hard and inconvenient. So, formula works great for all these scenarios.

But you shouldn't get on your high-horse about this. There are also PLENTY of women, like myself, who try breastfeeding and are forced to give formula for one medical reason or another.

Not all women formula feed out of selfishness!

But I do agree about the women who choose to formula feed just because they're selfish. If you're too self-centered to breastfeed your child, what else are you going to be too busy to do for them?

Answer 7

No anger here. I just couldn't and frankly didn't want to. And my daughter is perfectly healthy.
The anger you mention from others who choose to bottle feed may be in response to your judgement of them. Personally I don't care what you think of me because I didn't breastfeed. It's none of your business. If you breastfeed your babies, good for you! You worry about you.

Answer 8

I don't understand the problem either. To me, the primary purpose of breast is the noursishment and comfort of babies (toddlers too, if extended bf'ing or CLW). The decorative and sex appeal are only very nice fringe benefits. It saddens and shames me that our culture tends to see bottlefeeding as normal, or at least a harmless alternative to breastfeeding. Too few realize that breastfeeding is the biological norm and is necessary. Formula is great when bf'ing really isn't possibe, but it's horrible that it's replaced bf'ing as the norm.