Posted on 03/01/2003 3:28:37 PM PST by MadIvan
Well, since I didn't breast feed my daughter, I am assuming, by your post, that her self induced schedule was due to her being bottle fed. Oh, but wait a minute, prior to Dr. Spock, La Leche League screeds, and other such things, breast fed babies put themselves on feeding , as well as sleeping schedules. Gee, historical ( rather than animal behaviorists, now claiming that human women and wild animals are the same ) factoids are hard to refute with " modern " propaganda / annecdotal refutations. LOL
What's the " long haul " ? How many years ?
Okay, okay, OKAY ... I get the point; you're one of those fanatics , with an agenda and don't really care about anything, other than pushing breast feeding down everyone's throat. Enjoy it, glory in it, heck, I don't care what you do. OTOH, I DO care about facts, the article on threads ( you refuse to stick to the topic ), and the bloody lefty, who thinks that she should brest feed in public, in the House of Commons, and everyone else be damned. It's females like her, who make men and women, who have the ability to think rationally,that women don't belong in postions of prominence; let alone the outside world !
Those of us who did so, were replying to someone, who claimed that it was a " natural body function " and left the door WIDE open for such rebuttal. LOL
Gee, sexual congress is natural and beautiful, as well, yet people don't ( shouldn't ) do that in the company of others, nor on the floor of the House of Commons, when it is in session, either.
You're a mind reader, as well as the judge and jury of me now ? Appropreating GOD's position, are you ? Get off your high horse, dear. You're the one with the agenda, who's obviously insecure / has been looked at funny whilst nursing, or had someone " insult " / hurt your feeling about it. Elsewise, you wouldn't be dragging this silly debate on and on. LOL
I merely stated factual history. You made it into a personal insult. My POINT was and is, that nursing an infant has only been " gloried ", out of all proportion, lately. As to my finances, yes, dear, I could have paid for a wet nurse, when my child was little, if such a thing were still available. It isn't and there was no need for one. Why would I have " been one ", dear ? I'm not the one raving about breast feeding here and neither was I / am I in such dire need of money; unlike you. ; ^ )
Have you ever been the sole provider of food to an infant? They need to drink milk, one way or another, about one hour on and one hour off for quite a while (for breast feeding babies, formula babies eat less often since formula is harder to digest).
Sexual intercourse and feeding a baby have very little similarity. Your comments reveal a lot of ignorance about child raising.
However, since you are not happy with that analogy, and apparently the parent can't wait an extra 2 minutes to find some privacy, let's draw the analogy with someone who REALLY has GOT to go NOW, and can't get to a restroom. Is it okay for him to poop in your front yard with your kids watching? It's a necessity, it's natural, it's embarrassing for the observer, and making the actor wait 20 seconds until privacy can be found (in the bushes next to your house?) is apparently too much to ask. Better?
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