Why the words “Public Health” have come to give me blinding headaches.
This makes me really angry. Not because it’s a ridiculous and overbearing regulation, which it is. Not because it’s an insult to women everywhere, who are presumed to be too stupid to feed their own children. And not because I want the formula. I never used the sample from last time, ferheavenssake.
No, I’m pissed about the diaper bag. I was so looking forward to getting another one. That crappy cheap black eeeeevil-formula-company diaper bag has been my favorite bag for the last six months. I can’t imagine life without it. I was really, really looking forward to getting another one and thus having the continued existence of the bag ensured. It’s holding up pretty well, but it’s always good to have a backup, dammit.
Via Blogging Baby, where comments are running about half and half for and against.
NOW I know what to get you!!
::coughcoughREGISTRYcoughcough::
(I do understand your anger, though. What a stupid, stupid ban.)
Posted by Margi on 12/23 at 03:12 PMjust more liberals protecting your civil liberties.
Posted by on 12/23 at 05:43 PMMy son’s birthing required two caesarian sections, after which my wee wifey needed four days recovery time before she could attempt to nurse. By that time she had begun to dry up and he had become accustomed to a bottle. Maybe under a mandatory au naturale regime they would have persisted till things got going, but then again he might have simply starved.
Posted by triticale on 12/23 at 09:58 PMI let the nurses give Sadie a bottle or two in her first day, and when the lactation consultant finally came to see us three days later (!) she was all, “this baby had a bottle, didn’t she,” and giving me the evil eye. You know, given the choice I’d love to have been in some sort of shape to breastfeed, but we don’t always get a choice. We went on to successfully breastfeed for 10+ months, but it sure as hell wasn’t due to any help from the LC.
Perhaps more importantly, when we do get a choice it’s none of anybody’s freaking business what we choose. And even if it was, nobody decides not to breastfeed because they got a free diaper bag and a formula sample. I’m sorry, but there’s something else going on there.
Fucking busybodies.
Posted by Deb on 12/23 at 11:18 PMYou know how liberals are, your right to choose ends with delivery. Then they know what is best.
Posted by Rosemary The Queen of All Evil on 12/24 at 11:43 AMActually, I think they’re after delivery too. Have you seen some of the discussions of how to cut the C-Section rate? Because after all, the WHO wants the rate at or under 15 percent, so American women must be stoopid…
Posted by Deb on 12/24 at 12:35 PMAmen sister. Just because pregnancy turns you into a walking dairy doesn’t mean that’s the best choice for you or the kid long term. And no one is going to tell me that I have to push a kid out on my twice-broken tailbone.
Posted by caltechgirl on 12/24 at 01:38 PM
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