>>WITH WHAT WE KNOW NOW ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES, I think that an informed woman
who decides on formula feeding with no attempt to breastfeed is practically
guilty of child abuse.
Insisting upon her "rights" is most questionable, in my opinion,
when you consider that she is DENYING her child immunization to
disease, risking increased morbidity, allergy, anemia, etc. etc.
etc. OK, so I'm a fanatic. I just keep wondering where are the
BABY'S rights here?<<
I remember a line from an old Karen Carpenter song that that has been my
credo for many years:
"Bless the beasts and the children,
For in this world they have no voice;
They have no choice."

I was watching a special on the discovery channel last night about a leopard.
She was raised in capitivity and then returned to the wild. A large part was
about how she handled her cubs. After watching the loving exchanges between
mother and cubs, my 10 yr old son turned to me and said "Mom isn't it amazing
how animals know how to love their babies? I'll bet there no such thing as a
mother animal abusing her kids." (I'm sure there are some but I didn't say
so)
I try to teach my moms to listen to what their heart tells them regardless of
what the *book* says. The good Lord did give us humans instincts and a brain
to use them. We get all messed up when we think science is better than common
sense.
If you're a fanatic Judy, then so am I.