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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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