On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 06:32 AM, THE FOGELMANS wrote:

>   If staying in bed all day will help a woman get through a fast, then
> why not encourage it.

I love this one:)  but who will take care of the kids?


<< If having pumped milk available in the freezer gives her a sense of
security, than why not. >>

Because breastfed babies should be nursed.  The rabbinical opinions
should be based on what is normal for a breastfed infant.  Not what is
normal simply because of the recent invention of breastpumps.

I laughed when my rabbi said to give my six month old expressed milk in
a bottle.  She wouldn't have dreamt of drinking milk via any other
container at that age.....breastmilk for her was about nursing - the
combination of food and nurturing *simultaneously*.  To deprive her of
millk from my breasts would have been wrong.  She was totally accustomed
to it.  We're not talking about a baby who's mother went back to work
early and had been getting milk via bottles for quite some time.

The two things are entirely different.

<<You just take the baby to bed for the day.  Would any of you
discourage that?>>

I would *encourage* it.   But there is the issue of other children and
someone to care for them, feed them, entertain them etc.

katherine in atl
who started drinking water around 3 pm and had one mad 11 mo old due to
the slow flow

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