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Remember that baby got 4 weeks of breastmilk - that may not have happened without your encouragement and support.

Snort - I love that quote! Isn't there a saying "if there ain't a problem don't fix it"? We'd see a lot fewer mothers in tears at LLL and other meetings if it weren't for people around them to fix this or that about the breastfeeding relationship (or about being born with a foreskin, for that matter).

Quote: Originally Posted by anj_rn maybe they are concerned that a woman breastfeeding would be distracting to too many of their male parishoners. Not that I think that should be your problem, but you know how hard it is to concentrate with breasts around if one of your x chromosomes broke and is now a y. I think that shows a pretty low opinion of the male sex in general.

I get them all the time. I leave them at my pediatrician's office. The practice is very pro-bf, but they have some patients that could use the coupons.

I was breastfed. My mother was not but my father and his siblings all were (rare in the 60s, I guess.) DH was breastfed but his little sister was not. I don't know if his mother was but I know that his father wasn't. DS is 2nd gen on both sides, 3rd gen and probably much, much further on my side paternally.

Meepy Cat, No, hardly any pediatricians in the area have priviledges at the hospital I birth at. The other hospital is a Children's Hospital, so most of the peds work there. The same neonatologists work at both hospitals, but the nurses are better at the one I birth at, and some are more accomodating. How did you respond to the nurse that tried to send you away from your baby?? I think I'd have filed a formal complain about that...

Quote: Originally Posted by Viola I knew this woman who worked as a nurse and said in a bunco group one night that she took the babies and gave them bottles even if the mothers said no bottles, because she knew what was best and these new parents really didn't know anything Are you %$#@ing kidding me?! And people wonder why we wanted to have a UC... WOW.

Thanks!!! I submitted it to mothering so maybe it'll be in the next issue

I believe I read somewhere that even giving a baby milk from a smoker is still better than formula. I understand the aversion, I would hesitate too, but I also really really hate formula. Also, I believe I heard that wet nursing, like surrogacy, in many areas is actually illegal. I don't understand why and I think it's completely ridiculous, but I wonder what the problem is? In the adoption forum, I was reading a thread where a woman...

I'm not 100% sure if DH was breastfed, but I *THINK* so - his family is definetly supportive of breastfeeding - or at least, his moms' side of the family is. TBH I don't know his dad's side very well (they're kind of wierd) and have no idea if his dad was ff or bf. *I* nursed till * was 4 Mom was ff, my dad I'm pretty sure was bf from the comments his mom makes when hold the kids - 'I haven't had any...