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This is a letter my sister wrote to the author-I could not have said it
better!
Dear Ms. Peyser,
As a fulltime working mother with three children, I respectfully disagree
with your opinion on breast-feeding. Especially your last paragraph. If
anything, in the first three months of life, breast feeding is less stressful than
bottle feeding.
Consider the following:
No preparing a bottle for the 3am feeding. Instead, breast milk is ready to
go at anytime.
Formula can be very tempermental. It needs to be mixed properly, stored
properly and used within 24 hours. With breast milk, there is no mixing and
therefore no room for error. It has it's own storage containers and has no
expiration date.
Breast milk is also portable. Where ever you and baby go so does your
feeding source. Not so with formula. Talk about stress! Who wants to have to
remember sterilized bottles, formula etc.
Additional benefits included:
More rapid weight loss immediately following birth.
And it is FREE!
Something that most New Yorkers love and you failed to mention. In fact if
you think about it, the free formula once given out is free only once. Then
you need to BUY IT all the time.
Look, I am not advocating breast-feeding your child until they go to
Kindergarten. But, the first three months are crucial and the most important.
If you are looking for a story here, I would suggest you write about the
intolerence within corporate America and other organizations to provide proper
areas to pump, time to pump and incentives to mom's to breast feed.
You opinion leads me to believe you were being paid by Mead-Johnson to write
this article.
Respectfully yours,
Martha Riley
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