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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just hope everyone is paying attention to what people are actually saying, and not just imagining their judgement and putting words and thoughts in their mouths. I nursed my kids longer than usual, and very frequently a mother would see me and immediately launch defensively into why she couldn’t breastfeed, or why she had to quit or whatever, without me ever saying anything, when I really and truly didn’t care how she fed her child. Many of us project our anger or frustration or disappointment onto other people.[/quote]

This is true, it happens. But it happens because breast is best and concepts like that pp who just casually threw out there that "formula is convenient for moms and I give my baby the best" line. So women walk around convinced everyone is judging them. And women who couldn't breastfeed they way they want feel crushing guilt because they bought into all that. It's a recipe for oversensitive rationalizing.

Personally I formula fed from day one because I had no interest in trying, at all, and that's it, no medical reason at all. I was very confident in that decision and honestly felt like I never had anyone in real life judge me. My cousin would have but I just didnt tell her. The number of lactivists out there in real life isnt that large I dont think (or maybe no one talked to me because they knew I'd snap back!). But the neurosis we have created in new moms is very real.[/quote]

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