She is merely saying that the hoopla is far overblown and I absolutely concur. She isn’t not breastfeeding her third child because it’s a pain in the ass, she quit doing it because it fucking her up in the head – which is not all that rare in women who already have children, especially if their other kids are rather young.

And unlike a lot of mothers, instead of just giving it up, or sucking it up and letting it cause serious damage to their head and their marriage or relationship, she actually started really looking at the evidence out there. And not all that surprisingly, she found that the actual evidence was rather thin. Turns out that while there are probably reasonable benefits to breastfeeding over momma milk, it isn’t all it’s been advertised to be.

I’ll tell you a dirty little secret, if you promise not to tell my fellow hippie friends – “organic” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be either.

Totally anecdotal, but I wasn’t breastfed and happen to have managed to survive rather heroic and extreme abuse of a great many drugs – hallucinogens having been my favorite. Many of the hallucinogens I took, most in rather large quantities have the effect they do because they’re neurotoxins. Suffice to say that by any reasonable measure, I’m rather exceptionally bright – even after slaughtering a great many of my brain cells. I also happen to have rather significant neurological problems, but those run rampant in my paternal genetics – both in the paternal sibs that were formula fed like I was, and in the ones who were breast fed, like my younger sibs.

The above is a quote from the linked article. I still say Rosin is advocating against breastfeeding because it is a pain in the ass for her. I think that is wrong (I agree that it is a pain in the ass though, at least at times) I don’t understand why any of you are supporting her stand. She is not one of those who tried and it didn’t work. She just doesn’t want to and pretends that there is no reason to breastfeed.

I am actually very supportive of mothers breastfeeding and have gotten rather nasty with people giving them shit for doing it in public. The first time around, not only did momma breast feed our first child, she ended up feeding other babies here and there and ended up helping another mother who had to go back on her meds and couldn’t breastfeed, by being one of the women who contributed her milk to that baby and given her problems with breastpumps, she had to feed him the old fashioned way. Likewise, I was extremely grateful when one of our neighbors would occasionally feed our first, when momma was in school – he would have nothing to do with any sort of bottle, no matter what was in it.

But having dealt with plenty of busy body pains in my and worse, momma’s ass, because she doesn’t breastfeed – I am sick and damned tired of people thinking it’s ok to give people crap for it. My partner was horrified by her inability to breastfeed our second. She finally came around, especially when she realized that he was very fond of his papa feeding him instead of her – especially in the middle of the night – he’d wake up and all he wanted was me and a bottle. And you know something? He’s perfectly healthy, all other things in his young life considered.

And I don’t care that Rosin probably could have worked it out somehow, whether by taking time out of her career or making it work at work. She (and probably her husband) made a choice for their family. It may not be ideal for the kids, but it certainly is unlikely to actually hurt them, unless they just ignore everything the doctor has to say about it. And while momma’s milk is ideal for several reasons, there are certainly advantages to formula feeding – especially in regards to papa involvement and bonding time.

I am all for encouraging breastfeeding and countering stupid myths about it. I am not however, for making out like the women who don’t are weird or doing something horrible.

You wrote “Can’t” Why?

No, no, no. You got it right and you are totally right. I mean how dare this foolish women have children that she can’t breastfeed and a husband she can’t take care of properly? (I bet she doesn’t even sex him every night – horrible thing)

Yea, it sucks if you can’t breastfeed and people give you a hard time. My impression from the quote was that she was too busy to bother? Why does she have three kids? Did I get it wrong?

I am sorry if I did. But if I didn’t…..

Thanks for validating my need for moral superiority over evile women who don’t feed their babies the way they should.