“The ones who can’t are the ones my heart goes out to.”
When my son was born my first wife dried up after about 5 weeks. Nothing would restart her. We depended on formula.
I’m getting pretty tired of the “just breast feed” crowd around here.
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There’s nothing wrong with the *just breastfeed* thinking. Every woman who actually gives birth should at least try. If they can’t, they can’t. But no one is going to know until and unless they try.
Especially today in light of the known formula shortage. It’s not like this shortage has caught anyone by surprise at this point. Any mother who doesn’t at least try knowing that formula is iffy, has no basis for complaint about formula availability, not when they have a potentially unlimited source of free, sterile, cheap food they can use and CHOOSE not to.
Sometimes stuff happens that makes breastfeeding not work and there needs to be options for those women. If enough women who could breastfeed did, then there’d be enough formula for those like your wife.
But that’s not the problem. If someone can breastfeed, they should. The whining I am not interested in is the ones who can and won’t, not the ones who can’t and would.
BIG difference.