Oh lord, we had troubles with the breast feeding fanatics.
The worst part was that my wife wanted to breast feed, but it just wasn’t working well - our kid was not latching.
We went the full nine yards on this - I wore little tubes taped to my fingers, everything. It did not work well. We kept being told that the kid would latch, all kids latch, just keep it up and it will work … kid was losing weight, and we said enough was enough.
This is also complicated by the fact that many brown-eyed people were born with blue eyes. They can persist to the age of 2 or so. My brown-eyed son was born with light gray eyes, which gradually darkened to hazel and then to brown. So even two people without any blue-eyed genes could have a blue-eyed baby.
Parents of infants don’t realize that “What a beautiful baby!” becomes “What a BIG baby!” too soon and too long.
(my experience. and during that time, I had possibly the fattest baby ever to be carried around)
I have a cousin who claims that an older woman approached her in the grocery store one day and repeatedly offered to watch the children while she finished her shopping. Creepy.
I’ve never understood New Baby Smell either…they either smell like they’ve just been washed, or like they need to be washed. Very young puppies, on the other hand, have a very pleasant smell.
GRACO does make the Emergency Baby Ejection insert in case of such emergencies. There is a lever on the handle and when you flip it, all you need to do is yell, “Pull…!” :eek:
Ka-blamm!
Ka-blamm!
Problem solved. :smack:
My son was born via C section early because of pre-eclampsia, my wife knew what it would mean so she hided it until the point she woke up blind and started crying.
She was still SHAMED even by hospital staff like nurses for bottle feeding after he flat refused to latch on and suck, he just would not do it. As he got older he would, but then our pediatrician told her she should stop that he wasn’t really feeding he was just sucking for comfort. This made her feel bad and guilty later that she should have ignored her and kept letting him feed or suck whatever.
This breast feeding shaming is some nasty emotionally fucked up shit.
My son was 4 and a half pounds at birth via C section.
See post 119.
Evidently, some people have the chemical receptors, and others do not.
You and Revtim just broke me up.
I read the weirdest article the other day of someone who was stalking this couple (It was the guys brothers girlfriend doing the stalking) Started off when the girlfriend was pregnant the stalker girl took pictures of the belly and posted them on facebook saying it was her baby bump! Than when the baby was born she proceeded to take selfies with the baby than posted those on facebook as well saying it was her baby. Than got crazy mad when the couple wouldent let her babysit…I wouldent either!!! She seems like she would of stolen the baby!
And please if you see a baby with glasses don’t ask the parents “How cute are they real?” . No we put them on her for looks, was what I wanted to answer, but I didn’t I controlled myself. But I can assure you if the baby is wearing glasses they are real. The other thing don’t say “what a shame” in front of the child…the shame would be if the parents allowed the kid to go blind for the want of a pr of glasses.
The even more psycho version shows up more than is comfortable. Crazy woman stuffs pillow up shirt and befriends pregnant woman. Near term she murders the woman and somehow performs successful surgery with a high school diploma.
Ok ignorant question time: are the glasses necessary to prevent (even more serious and permanent) vision problems because of limited input? In other words, “go blind” somewhat literally or just to get by?
Oh yes! Right on the top of the head. I still have to smell my baby’s head and she’s 25 now!
Of course, it’s now coming out that the benefits of breastfeeding were being wildly exaggerated - it’s better, but not overwhelmingly so, and bottle feeding is fine. I admit I find this wholly unsurprising and never bought the hype when our daughter was born (though her mother did mostly breastfeed for the first six months.) We used bottles when convenience dictated, and quite a lot early on when she was struggling with the process.
I am legally blind in one eye because I didn’t get the optical care I needed. It is called amblyopia , all that means is that the 2 eyes see drastically different from each other, usually the child’s eyes cross but not always. What happens then is that the child sees 2 images of one thing the condition is actually fairly easily corrected IF the child sees an eye doctor soon enough. In my case ignorance reigned. So the brain can’t cope with that confusion, so it shuts off the double vision. In the old days the old ladies would say “Oh leave it alone, the eyes will straighten”, and they will staighten when it is too late to do anything about it. Then later they will have no control over it when it wanders (remember Jack Elam?). Every child should have yearly visits to the eye dr by at least 3 years old! In our daughters case her eyes crossed (yes I inherited the problem) at 14 months, at 15 months she got her first of many pr of glasses and If there was one ignorant question it was “Are they real?”. I thought that was pretty young until I saw a baby in her mothers shopping cart, she was about 6 months old and had the cutest tiny pr of glasses I had ever seen. Her problem wasn’t amblyopia but never the less her vision was being saved and I thought that was wonderful.
In my case my father took me to an eye dr when I was 2 , I cried and he said “Oh thats ok baby, you don’t have to see that nasty old doctor”. So I was 5 and a half when my grandmother got me and discovered I couldn’t see beyond 3 inches in front of my face, and that was likely the reason I ran into a parked car and knocked myself unconscious. So when the time came and my son needed glasses the Dr put drops in his eyes , and he cried. I let him cry for a couple of minutes then told him “Shut up! Or I will give you a reason to cry”. That way by the time the dr came back to the room he was behaving. Later and still today he says the drops sting. Today he is 53 years old and has excellent vision with glasses.
I’ll never understand why so many people on this board (and the internet as a whole) get so freaking mad about normal human behavior. What’s wrong with asking how old a baby is? Would you rather they ask you about the weather or how about those [local sports team]? Or would those bother you too?:smack:
You mean you don’t use Axe Body Wash on your baby? How is he supposed to git with the ladies?
You’d think you’d need something sharper than a piece of paper.
Holy crap. I don’t think my high school diploma could cut a tomato.
I would never think to touch a baby, much less threaten to kidnap one. If I wanted children, I would have had one. And how many times have I heard “You don’t have children? Why not?I feel sorry for you.” It’s none of your goddam business, and do you really want to hear my list of every conceivable reason to not have a child, and how do they all apply in my case?
But asking how old the child is, followed by a “Good luck” or “Mazel tov” is perfectly acceptable in my book. No need for snarky answers.
I’d be less of a boob nazi if the ready acceptance of formula hadn’t created a culture in which lactation issues aren’t taken seriously as a medical problem. But because “formula’s not rat poison,” and “breast milk is only slightly superior,” there is almost no research into lactation difficulties, and no doctor or lactation consultant had any interest in fixing my malfunctioning milk machines when repositioning and nipple shields didn’t work.
We have half a dozen drugs approved to treat erectile dysfunction, and not a single one to treat delayed or failed lactogenesis. That’s messed up.
I’ll consider not telling people the truth about formula - that’s it’s biologically inferior to breastmilk, and that any other person of any other age needs a doctor’s prescription for total artificial feeding for a reason - when they start taking the fact that I have two organs that don’t work right seriously. Only by continuously and loudly pointing out the flaws in the system will the system ever be changed.
I’m not upset that you chose to formula feed. I’m pissed off that I had to.