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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't want experience labor - you want pain killers, or a scheduled induction, or an elective c-section (even when it's not medically necessary). You don't want to care for your newborn her first night outside your body - you send her to the nursery. You don't want to breastfeed - you resort to formula at the first opportunity. You don't want to help your baby adjust by letting her sleep in the same room as you. What part of having a baby DO you want??
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Yes, OP, clearly all there is to parenting is the delivery and the boob. If only.

Pregnancy sucks. Giving birth sucks. Those hours the baby went to nursery are the last unbroken stretch of sleep most of us get for months to come (years, in my case). As a formula feeding mom, for reasons that are none of your business, I didn't find that formula feeding was the "easy way" at all - washing and making endless bottles, lugging formula and bottles and bibs around everywhere when my best friend could just pop out a boob... And newborns are screaming angry potatoes, which I personally don't find particularly enjoyable. The baby stage is my least favorite part of being a parent, and I say that as I deal with the terrible twos and all the fun things that entails with my oldest. He's so much fun, even with the tantrums and boundary testing.

You know, in the former USSR, they didn't allow women to get any kind of pain relief during labor because they believed the mother couldn't properly bond with the baby if she didn't experience the pain. Glad to hear someone still holds those Soviet beliefs!

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