@Freya, yay for commenting even if you don’t have kids yet! Thank you for the sweet words, I don’t feel very interesting especially lately lol. I think a lot of us (including myself who my registered nurse mother formula fed from day one) THINK we are “fine” when we are not. Granted some of the effects of being fed formula and cows milk from birth may not appear until we are elderly, but still, the damage is done.

@P.A., thank you!! I just feel for you so much, with both of us having the c-sections from hell with awful medical personnel. Nurses and doctors these days know VERY LITTLE about breastfeeding. Babies DO NOT “just cry”. Crying does NOT develop lungs (drives me absolutely insane to hear this). YAY see your baby realizes he’s getting a fake nipple and doesn’t want it! How awesome is that!!!

I agree, your partner is doing everything possible to ruin your breastfeeding relationship AND health of his newest son. To have someone do that, gods, I would be FLIPPING out. I also agree that a LOT of people FORCE FEED formula, making sure EVERY DROP is out of that bottle and proudly proclaim their 1 week old baby took EIGHT OUNCES, then turn around and proclaim they have a sick baby or “colic” baby because the baby starts to vomit and cry. Ugh their poor tummies…

I’m getting off track here heh. You’re right, having that support is awesome, Keith was scared of breastfeeding actually, apparently growing up he was at a public event (a dining tent) as a teenager and a very “long” (I assume he meant saggy?) breasted woman (ironic considering my chest size), took out her entire breast to feed her baby. In his mind, she wasn’t being polite. He also admitted that he viewed it with a teenage mind and at first didn’t realize she was going to breastfeed, just that she was taking her entire breast out of her shirt in a dramatic fashion.

When I first became pregnant with Tristan I made it VERY clear that he was going to be breastfed and until he self-weaned at that! I explained Danny self-weaned after he turned 4yrs of age which freaked Keith out. He knew NOTHING about breastfeeding, breastmilk, ANY of it.

When we went to Borders a week or so ago, I of course nursed the baby (heh MANY times) and it was the first time he saw someone he knew breastfeed in public. He wasn’t sure of the etiquette, I had to explain the bathroom and covering up were NOT options. I straightened him out right quick. He said the reason it didn’t bother him when I did it, even though, due to the shirt I was wearing, my breast was coming from the TOP of the shirt, aka exposing the whole breast, was that I did it in a way that was subtle.

I don’t get the subtle comment, I sat in a chair and paced hoping I would find a book I would like enough to bring home (I didn’t find any at that time heh).

Before me he only saw three other women breastfeed, the one that is forever burned in his brain apparently, one other woman, and a friend of his who covered up with a towel or hid in the bathroom or car… (I do NOT understand the cover-up or hiding, I couldn’t eat under fabric…).

I am so long-winded.

@Amber, yay for nursing past a year! I completely agree, I feel that the medical folk SAY breastfeeding is best only because… it IS… but they rather would force all babies to use formula because, really, it’s a controlled substance that does not change at all. So there is no variation from baby to baby. Also formula fed babies commonly are sick so that also brings in more money and typically formula feeding parents are more likely to do ALL the vaccines as well, aka MONEY.

@The Maven, thank you so much!! I am so curious if Tristan will nurse for 4yrs or even 5! It’s a personal goal of mine to show Keith how awesome breastfeeding is and how NORMAL it is. I have to give him credit, not once has he suggested formula or bottles. I would probably break his laptop if he did lol. Heck, I don’t think he quite grasped how “hard-core” I am about attachment parenting over all lol.

@Sarah, it’s proven time and time again that formula fed people are more likely to have weight issues, health issues, etc. They refuse to do the research and instead rely on the word of their “doctor” who isn’t going based on facts but their own personal opinions regarding breastfeeding!