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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IS formula more convenient?? I breastfed 3 babies. It was so easy to just nurse any time I needed. No bringing bottles, no formula, no cleaning bottles. My diaper bag consisted of 2 diapers and a thing of wipes. It was particularly easy in the middle of the night with newborns. I never left my bed, just picked up baby, nursed and put them down. I really feel like I got more sleep that way than going to the kitchen to make formula, turning on lights, etc.

Pumping is harder than formula, yeah, but not totally. I pump 3x during my work day. I don't stop working and just pump at the computer. (I realize that not everyone has a job they can pump at)[/quote]

I have the perfect job for pumping and I found pumping to be hugely disruptive and exhausting. Not everyone finds breastfeeding as convenient as you did. I'm not saying you didn't find it easy, I'm saying I didn't. For many, many women, it is not easy, [b]but people like you insist only your experience is valid[/b].[/quote]

Sorry, I think no one hears from the experience of women who enjoyed it and find it easy. I don't talk about it in public. In mom's groups, people only talk about struggles. Why isn't my experience valid too? [/quote]

It isn't valid because they are breastfeeding. And we are talking here about women who formula feed. Women who are formula feeding can't or don't want to breastfeed for various reasons. The fact that you find breastfeeding easy isn't going to help women who formula feed because they aren't breastfeeding for a reason. Got it?[/quote]

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