I'm many years out my teens
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and I have no experience of breastfeeding ... for the simple reason that I haven't had a baby yet
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However, I am reading this thread with some fascination, as I genuinely don't understand why some people actively choose NOT to breastfeed. If/when I am lucky enough to have my own baby, I would definitely want to BF if I could. Apart from the obvious bit about it being best for your baby, there seem to me to be zillions of good reasons to BF, not least including the fact that your own milk is FREE! Plus also isn't it much easier to transport your BBs rather than all the bottles and sterilisers etc. that are required for bottles?
I'm not passing any judgement here ... after all, each to their own. I'm just really curious why anybody could be bothered to bottle feed.
And to the original poster of this thread, good luck if you do decide to BF, and I am sure it's because your friends are teenagers, rather than because YOU are a teenager, that you're getting funny looks from them.
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Yes,I can be
bothered with feeding my child.This is the way I chose to and it's not the least bit hard.
Breastfeeding isn't a walk in the park either,it takes a lot of work and you face plenty of problems.
I don't really feel like explaining it,sorry
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but I can truly say I'm very comfortable with my decision and it was best for me and my daughter.
And it wasn't '
dumb' nor was formula pushed in my face.
Please guys remember that it's important to respect a mother's choice.There are plenty of members here who can see this and who have chosen to formula feed each and every for their own validated reasons.
There are rules in the Breast and bottle feeding section about this and this forum supports and encourages both.
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I don't think Colsy meant any disrespect to bottle feeding mum's, although I can see how it may have come across that way. I think there is a difference in saying, "I don't think mum's should bottle feed" (disrespecting their choice, and their right to choose) and saying "I don't
understand why some people would choose to bottle feed." I think it is more ignorance than malice, and if people aren't allowed to
ask why people would make the choices they do they may very well go on never knowing or understanding why mum's make the choice to bottle feed their babies. I do not believe it is a healthy way for society to be, when people can not enquire about things they do not understand, in order to gain a greater understanding.
I think it can be healthy to want to know why bottle feeding mum's made the choices they did (and visa verse) because otherwise people will just go on making assumptions and never really know
what goes on and
why breastfeeding isn't for some, why some people prefer to bottle feed, or why some people choose not to bottle feed. Although admittedly it often leads to arguments, which is sad
As Colsy said "each to their own", but not everyone understands that and so there need to be rules to stop people passing judgement on others, but do these rules encase all conversations about breast and bottle feeding? Is it against the rules to ask why some would breast feed and why others might bottle feed, or to admit that you simply don't know why someone would bottle feed? Because some people do go too far and inevitably it turns into a "breast vs bottle" debate
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Which restricts people being able to get real information about both methods of feeding when they may come here looking for the impartial pro's and con's of each way, and may want to learn from other's experiences and have more understanding and information to help them in making their choice of whether to breast or bottle feed.
I think it is sad, that people can not come to this forum and ask, "Why did you bottle feed?" or "why did you breast feed?". Because obviously no one has to answer; no one should have to
justify why they chose to feed their baby the way that they did, but if you didn't see it as 'justifying' rather, just explaining and sharing your experiences, then I really believe that for some who have not yet made their decision and are genuinely unsure what they want to do, then hearing other people's reasons why they made the choices that they did and how it worked out for them could really help someone who has not yet made that choice. But it always turns into an argument, doesn't it
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