Comments on: Choosing Not To Breastfeeding Your Baby

By: amanda

amanda — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:59:48 +0000

please find a professional that will actually tell me I can’t eat any sweets and must follow a strict diet while breastfeeding….as well as the alcohol consumption. In order for this to be true my obstetrician would have told me not to do all these things, especially as a diabetic (while pregnant). She says I can eat what I want and even a glass of wine a day is ok.

By: Kristy

Kristy — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:21:20 +0000

I’m days away from having my third child. I have breast feed my first, for a few months and my second for a few days. With this child I have already chosen to go straight to the bottle.
I find it funny that so many mothers are scared into breastfeeding by threats that their children won’t be as healthy if they choose formula. My children are sick far less than the children of some of my closest friends who all breastfeed their children for 12 months. I think the real contributing factor the the health of a child has more to do with the attentiveness of a mother than the “magic” of breast milk.
I teach my children common seance to stay healthy; I make sure my children wash their hands before meals and after running lots of errands. I keep my kids home to rest when they are sick so they get over illnesses faster, and so on.
The bottom line is this, breastfeeding is not a magic cure all, nor does it define the success of a mother, your actions throughout the life of your child will determine that. If you want to breastfeed than you should but if you don’t, than don’t let yourself be bullied into it, you determine your own success as a mother.

By: AlmostMom

AlmostMom — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:42:15 +0000

Breastfeeding advocates site studies which prove babies who are breastfed experience less illness. Those who try to disprove this have never sited studies … just personal opinion.