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> Reasons I Didn't Formula Feed
> By Marilyn
>
> Everywhere I go, formula feeding moms tell my why
> they didn't breastfeed. I never thought about
> breastfeeding that way, but maybe I should. Here are
> the reasons I didn't formula feed (since I feel sooo
> guilty for not doing it.):
>
>   a.. I didn't want my husband to help take care of
> the baby and we all know that the only thing
> husbands know how to do is feed the baby a bottle.
>
>   b.. I was just too lazy to get up in the middle of
> the night to make bottles.
>
>   c.. I hate doing laundry and I've been told that
> formula stains, so I don't want the extra work.
>
>   d.. No one ever told me about the advantages of
> formula. All the doctors and nurses pushed
> breastfeeding on me and never ever offered my baby a
> bottle.
>
>   e.. I'm uneducated and since breastfeeding makes
> you smarter I figured my kids could use all the help
> they could get.
>
>   f.. Since everyone knows breastfeeding women leak
> all the time, I figured I would have the advantage
> at wet t-shirt contests. I go without a bra and they
> don't even have to spray me; I'm already wet.
>
>   g.. A boob-job is too expensive and I wanted
> bigger boobs.
>
>   h.. I hate going to the doctor, I've heard formula
> feeders just love going, but I don't and if
> breastfeeding keeps them out of the doctors office
> that's the choice for me.
>
>   i.. I just wanted to stay home and sit on the
> computer all day. If I had chosen formula I would
> have had to go to work because everyone knows you
> can't work and breastfeed, of course, and everyone
> knows breastpumps don't work and are just there for
> looks.
>
>   j.. I'm poor and I can't afford formula so my
> child is being denied all its wonders (stomachache,
> ear infections, nasty spit-up, nastier poopies,
> colic) because I'm poor.
>
>   k.. My mother didn't breastfeed and of course I
> have to be different just to spite her.
>
>   l.. I just couldn't formula feed, I tried and
> tried to put that bottle in the babies mouth but he
> just didn't want it.
>
>   m.. I didn't have enough milk, there wasn't enough
> in the bottle so I had to breastfeed or the baby
> would have starved.
>
>   n.. The bottle didn't make enough milk, I shook it
> and turned it upside down and stared at it but it
> never made any milk at all.
>
>   o.. Its just too embarrassing to feed my baby a
> bottle in public, people will stare and make rude
> comments.
> These are my reasons for not formula feeding if you
> disagree with them, then I will get all my
> breastfeeding buddies to tell you how wrong you are.
>
> Marilyn is the mother of 5 children and a
> breastfeeding advocate
> © 2001 all right reserved

Alicia Rudin, LLLL, APL, IBCLC
Gainesville, FL
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