madasa
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I've only looked at the op and the article and I know just how thus thread will have gone 
. I don't know if I dare read the replies, so I'm just responding to the article itself.
While I agree some with the points raised in it, I don't like its accusatory tone. I know there are women out there who treat it as a mere lifestyle choice, like what they feed their baby doesn't matter. Perhaps if they were to hold their newborn baby and recite: "I choose..." it would spark off more thought, which the decision surely deserves. But what is the point blogging this and berating mums who have already made their choice?? What good will it do? NONE!!! In fact it will do HARM. This "bullying" stops women from saying, "I didn't want to formula feed". To save the hassle and backlash they say: "I couldn't do it, it was too hard". Which makes bfing fail-rates seem much higher and makes it seem an extremely difficult process that lots of women can't manage.
Bundchen is Brazilian. English is not her first language. I suspect she didn't mean what everyone thought she meant when she said "law". More likely she meant cultural expectation... Which I agree with. We can and should expect women to bf, and fully support them in that, but no one should have control over what a woman will do with her body, other than the woman herself. Breastfeeding is the normal biological conclusion of a live birth, just as a normal vaginal birth is the normal conclusion of a normal, successful pregnancy. Our social norms should reflect that, but we dnt need MORE interfering laws telling us what to do.
Think about this : 1 in 4 women have suffered abuse which makes birth and breastfeeding profoundly difficult. The figure could be much higher as lots of women don't tell anyone... Some may not even remember until birth or motherhood triggers a suppressed childhood memory. Did the author consider this when she wrote her article? Or maybe it's not just ff mums who are "uneducated".
Bundchen, a nutrition expert? NO!! It doesn't take an expert to know that breastfeeding is the way babies should be fed, if at all possible.
. I don't know if I dare read the replies, so I'm just responding to the article itself.While I agree some with the points raised in it, I don't like its accusatory tone. I know there are women out there who treat it as a mere lifestyle choice, like what they feed their baby doesn't matter. Perhaps if they were to hold their newborn baby and recite: "I choose..." it would spark off more thought, which the decision surely deserves. But what is the point blogging this and berating mums who have already made their choice?? What good will it do? NONE!!! In fact it will do HARM. This "bullying" stops women from saying, "I didn't want to formula feed". To save the hassle and backlash they say: "I couldn't do it, it was too hard". Which makes bfing fail-rates seem much higher and makes it seem an extremely difficult process that lots of women can't manage.
Bundchen is Brazilian. English is not her first language. I suspect she didn't mean what everyone thought she meant when she said "law". More likely she meant cultural expectation... Which I agree with. We can and should expect women to bf, and fully support them in that, but no one should have control over what a woman will do with her body, other than the woman herself. Breastfeeding is the normal biological conclusion of a live birth, just as a normal vaginal birth is the normal conclusion of a normal, successful pregnancy. Our social norms should reflect that, but we dnt need MORE interfering laws telling us what to do.
Think about this : 1 in 4 women have suffered abuse which makes birth and breastfeeding profoundly difficult. The figure could be much higher as lots of women don't tell anyone... Some may not even remember until birth or motherhood triggers a suppressed childhood memory. Did the author consider this when she wrote her article? Or maybe it's not just ff mums who are "uneducated".
Bundchen, a nutrition expert? NO!! It doesn't take an expert to know that breastfeeding is the way babies should be fed, if at all possible.
why should I?
over. Other than that, its all been par for the course for me. 
