From: coleb Wed Jan 17, 1996 -- 02:21:00 PM To: [log in to unmask]@ Lesley Robinson, Thank you for causing this provocation. I appreciate it because those were my words you referenced. And the comparison you made to conceiving and sex is, funny enough, very appropriate. I did go to a sperm bank to become pregnant. Not because I don't like sex, but because I was 33 without a serious man in my life, a diabetic for 17 years, and desperately wanting to have a baby. Not that this is the business of anyone here on Lactnet!!! But that is the point. A woman who knows the facts and chooses to bottle feed her baby with breastmilk has made HER PERSONAL CHOICE (not shouting, just raising my voice a little). Whether it is the same decision you would make in the same situation is not relevant. I did not pump and feed by bottle, I breastfed. But that also was my choice. Educate, but don't put your opinions on others. It's not fair. But that doesn't matter either. My son is much loved, and when he asked me for the first time two weeks ago where his daddy was, he glowed when I told him I had not found someone to marry and I really wanted to have a baby, so I had him.