So I tried breatfeeding for, what?, 2 or 3 months. After being strapped to a pump most of the day, the most I ever made was 2 oz. Not 2 oz in one sitting, 2 oz for the day! We tried tubes, different positions, crazy bottles, and weird herbal stuff that makes you smell like curry. The only thing I didn't try was whatever that medicine is that has the side effect of making you lactate. I'd already reached the end of my rope by the time I heard about it, and, quite frankly, I'm not too comfortable with the idea. What is that medication? What is it supposed to do to you, if the side effect is lactation?? I digress. I felt so pressured by everyone around me with that "Breast is Best" stuff, that I really started to resent them.
I'm fine with the bottle. Mel's fine with the bottle. For all the crap they spew about formula kids getting sicker, there's actually only about a 5% difference, and that's not controlling other factors, like the fact that there's a correlation between a family's race and income and whether or not the children are breastfed. Mel is pretty frickin' healthy. She gets sick at the beginning of the semester, right after childcare starts up again (like what's going on now), but rarely any other time. She's only been sick a couple of times in her life, and she hasn't been for the last 6 months or so. Really.
Also, if you really wanted to emulate people in third world countries who exclusively breastfeed and carry their babies in wraps at their hips all day, you would have buried your smallest twin at their birth. Yeah, so, uh, don't sweat it, ok?
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Don't feel guilty! Sheesh!
Date: 2007-09-14 06:19 pm (UTC)I'm fine with the bottle. Mel's fine with the bottle. For all the crap they spew about formula kids getting sicker, there's actually only about a 5% difference, and that's not controlling other factors, like the fact that there's a correlation between a family's race and income and whether or not the children are breastfed. Mel is pretty frickin' healthy. She gets sick at the beginning of the semester, right after childcare starts up again (like what's going on now), but rarely any other time. She's only been sick a couple of times in her life, and she hasn't been for the last 6 months or so. Really.
Also, if you really wanted to emulate people in third world countries who exclusively breastfeed and carry their babies in wraps at their hips all day, you would have buried your smallest twin at their birth. Yeah, so, uh, don't sweat it, ok?
You're a great mom with great kids. Ok??
moll.