Reply to I hate the AAP

Forum Index » Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers

Reply to "I hate the AAP"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The job of the AAP is to tell you what is the optimal practice. Not what you should do. You should exercise every day. You should eat at least 5 fruits and vegetables a day. You won't die if you don't but that is the optimal clinical outcome. Stop being so defensive and sensitive. [/quote]

This all day. [/quote]

Exercising every day is objectively good for the person that does it. Eating at least 5 fruits and veggies a day is objectively good for the person that does it. [b]Being the only caregiver that can do night feedings for a newborn[/b] is not good for a lot of women, and the benefits to the baby are marginal at best.[/quote]

This is also true for single mothers who bottle feed, mothers who have babies with bottle refusal (regardless of what’s in the bottle) mothers of babies whose spouse works night shift/more than one job, and mothers married to shitty men of any description. Formula solves none of those problems. Bottle feeding expressed milk has the same magical qualities as bottle feeding formula in terms of a mothers sleep. [/quote]

Many babies refuse the bottle because parents are afraid of introducing a bottle too early thanks to organizations like the AAP.

Bottle feeding was much easier for me regardless of whether my DH was doing it or not. I doubt you'll believe me though since you can only process one narrative.[/quote]

Do I believe you that your experience was that the bottle was easier? Sure. It’s a sample size of one, though, so I certainly don’t think it matters in terms of making recommendations.

Now when you show me a high quality randomized peer reviewed study that shows bottle-feeding  has long term benefits to the health of women who do it, I will think it might be beneficial to a larger population than just yourself. 
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics