My wife cried tears of frustration at not being able to breastfeed her children, and still feels judged as not being a proper mother for this reason. 😟
You’d be surprised how militant the breast is best folks get.
Chill moms. Breast ,might be marginally better…bur not enough to lose even more sleep over.
Most studies of breast milk vs formula on childhood development, fail to account for socioeconomic factors that are intrinsic to it: moms who can breast feed or pump full time must either be financially secure enough to be a full-tim SAHM, or have a good enough job where the bosses make accomodations for pumping and storing instead of just firing you because at-will termination is easier than meeting regulations. Those kids come out of the womb with an automatic leg up over most families who formula feed.
Not saying their aren’t wealthy/secure families that use formula, nor am I saying there aren’t moms working two jobs with a baby perpetually latched to her teat. But they are outliers.
Yeah, the problem is those damn mums buying artificial formula instead of doing the right thing and breastfeeding!
/s, because sadly there are people who actually sincerely believe that.
The militant breastfeeding blog community of the early aughts would say so. Those women were HORRIBLE.
My wife cried tears of frustration at not being able to breastfeed her children, and still feels judged as not being a proper mother for this reason. 😟
They still are.
You’d be surprised how militant the breast is best folks get.
Chill moms. Breast ,might be marginally better…bur not enough to lose even more sleep over.
Most studies of breast milk vs formula on childhood development, fail to account for socioeconomic factors that are intrinsic to it: moms who can breast feed or pump full time must either be financially secure enough to be a full-tim SAHM, or have a good enough job where the bosses make accomodations for pumping and storing instead of just firing you because at-will termination is easier than meeting regulations. Those kids come out of the womb with an automatic leg up over most families who formula feed.
Not saying their aren’t wealthy/secure families that use formula, nor am I saying there aren’t moms working two jobs with a baby perpetually latched to her teat. But they are outliers.
“At-will” termination is a US problem. Other countries have more humane norms for lactating mothers.
Well, demonizing breastfeeding is a problem, but not this problem.