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I am sorry that I allowed Tony's comments to get to me and that I posted
something that seemed to be a personal attack; I didn't intend it as such.
I read Tony's post to advocate the early introduction of bottles, a point
that seems to me to be mutually exclusive with supporting breastfeeding. I
am extremely wary of those who state they support breastfeeding and then
give information to parents that insidiously undermines it. Tony's comment
"Introduce early and problems are eliminated" seemed to me to be just the
kind of undermining of breastfeeding that we are all working so hard to
erase. I hope Tony will ignore my post and instead listen to all the others
who will explain with much more rationality than I did why such advice is a
problem.
I do not believe that suggesting introducing bottles at all is mutually
exclusive with supporting breastfeeding; as an employed mother, my daughter
received pumped milk from a bottle from 3 months until she was around 16
months, but never from me or when I was available. As a result, she is
still nursing at almost 2 and doesn't seem anywhere close to weaning. I
received the good advice not to introduce a bottle until breastfeeding was
well established and I hope that this is the kind of advice that supporters
of breastfeeding, including Tony, will continue to espouse.
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