The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

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The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

Hey, did you guys know that just a single sip of formula is dangerous?

Oh, and! Did you know that mothers who complain about how their babies don't sleep through the night must be bottle feeding, because bottle feeding is so difficult and terrible. But if you breast feed, you can accept multiple night wakings no problem. And if you can't, well, you need an attitude adjustment and then you can greet the new day "with a smile."

Did. You. Know.

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Nine-years-ago-me would like to punch the author of this book in her face on behalf of my week-old baby who would not stop crying because guess what, the poster in my hospital room about how colostrum is enough for your baby? WAS NOT TRUE of my baby, who was literally starving because she needed more. And guess who had lots of hormones and lots of guilt about giving my baby even a little supplementary formula and let her suffer a day more than she needed to?

At least I learned my lesson and kid #2 got supplementary formula as soon as it turned out he, too, wasn't getting enough on my colostrum. Both kids are FINE.

(I then went on, both times, to produce quite a lot of milk and never had any problems with milk production after that, so all of the hype about how you might not be able to produce enough once supplementing etc etc was also total baloney. My personal feeling, unsupported by data, is that it's correlation rather than causation.)

Wow, I still have a lot of rage about this.

(Not even touching the sleeping through the night thing, because I would like to come down from the rage plateau at *some* point, but let's just say... NO.)

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Wow, I still have a lot of rage about this.

legit.