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[quote=Anonymous]It is absolutely worth it *for me* but no two mother and baby duos has the same cost benefit inputs, so you can’t expect the same outputs. For Me:

-Baby was born on the small side and with a high arched palate— she hates pacifiers and has from day one. It was much easier to give her a boob than a bottle (as we learned when we started teaching her to take a bottle at six weeks)
- I had a rough recovery and was ultimately sent back on bed rest. Nursing my baby was the only baby care I was doing, so I felt like I was doing a good job as her mama when I was nursing, even though I wasn’t changing diapers or carrying her anywhere in the first couple weeks.
- I hate doing dishes and honestly bottles are worse.  We have four bottles so she can go to daycare and I detest washing them. 
- I like to be spontaneous and carrying a bottle of formula with me everywhere in case I decided I wanted to stop by the pool or get a coffee wouldn’t work for me. 
- We traveled constantly pre-Covid and needing to pack formula would not have suited me.
- I’m vaccinated and my daughter is in daycare, our pediatrician says the vaccine passes in breastmilk to some degree and there are anecdotal cases in my circle of breastfed babies not getting the virus from infected classmates. 
- Breastfeeding reduces a mother’s lifetime risk of breast cancer, so that’s nice.
- All my weight came off without trying (this one is hugely idiosyncratic though)[/quote]

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