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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is such an ignorant question that comes up often from expecting mothers that clearly have some unresolved feelings about their choice to FF their baby.

No one cares what you do. No one is going to pressure you. Just state you are not breastfeeding. Really it's quite simple without your (gasp!) histrionics. [/quote]

You are the ignorant one. I breastfeed both of my kids from birth. Even so, nurses in the hospital:
-told me I should correct the latch "so I won't have to use any yucky formula filled with chemicals"
-told me not to worry about a more than 10% drop in weight because "then I would feel pressured to supplement"
-for my second when I said I felt bad because the baby seemed so hungry "well what are you going to do about it?" trying to bait me into saying give formula
-when I asked for ready to feed after the above interaction was told they would need to go speak to their supervision about that, sent someone in to try to talk me out of it, sent A SECOND PERSON IN to try to talk me out of it

I hope there's a pushback against this in future years. If I ever had a third I want to find the most baby unfriendly hospital I can. [/quote]

Your experience is completely irrelevant to the topic since they knew you intended to breastfeed. They were working to support your choice. So sad that you can't see it that way. You do an awful lot of projecting here. They were trying to bait you? Um, okay. Your baby dropped more than 10% weight while you were still admitted? Something else going on there. A SECOND PERSON came into your room. Wow, you don't say.

That's interesting for any mother to say she is seeking out a baby-unfriendly hospital. Telling, really. [/quote]

oh stop. it’s not “supporting her choice” to harass her when she asks to supplement. it’s paternalistically refusing to listen to her choice. [/quote]

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