That's a pretty tough line to take for the working mom whose milk has dried up, despite her best efforts at pumping. You try raising a healthy baby on thin air, then tell us how access to formula - the right kind of formula, mind you, isn't absolutely central to your life.
Your privilege is showing, and zo is your ignorance.
That's a pretty tough line to take for the working mom whose milk has dried up, despite her best efforts at pumping. You try raising a healthy baby on thin air, then tell us how access to formula - the right kind of formula, mind you, isn't absolutely central to your life.
Your privilege is showing, and zo is your ignorance.
Actually, I'm neither ignorant nor privileged. I've lived somewhere around the poverty line much of my life. I've also had three kids, all of whom, for various reasons were bottle babies and looking back on it, I kind of regret not having had the opportunity to breastfeed them. I fully understand the necessity for baby formula for some women, but I also feel that there is a lot of reluctance to breastfeed in America because of the embarrassment surrounding the exposure of the female breast - an embarrassment which possibly dates back to America's Puritan roots. The baby formula industry is almost certainly cashing in on this reluctance.
That's a pretty tough line to take for the working mom whose milk has dried up, despite her best efforts at pumping. You try raising a healthy baby on thin air, then tell us how access to formula - the right kind of formula, mind you, isn't absolutely central to your life.
Your privilege is showing, and zo is your ignorance.
And my second child had a cleft palate. This meant she could not nurse. The cost of formula was a strain on my budget.
Ugh, so sorry you had to go through that 😔
Agreed.
Actually, I'm neither ignorant nor privileged. I've lived somewhere around the poverty line much of my life. I've also had three kids, all of whom, for various reasons were bottle babies and looking back on it, I kind of regret not having had the opportunity to breastfeed them. I fully understand the necessity for baby formula for some women, but I also feel that there is a lot of reluctance to breastfeed in America because of the embarrassment surrounding the exposure of the female breast - an embarrassment which possibly dates back to America's Puritan roots. The baby formula industry is almost certainly cashing in on this reluctance.