Have we not yet lost the idea of “maternity leave?” The more it’s written about here and the more casual online research I’ve done, it appears that “maternity leave” per se (at least in the United States) isn’t terribly common.
Rather, people codge together a leave for maternity from various sorts of leave benefits. How creatively/generously those can be combined depends on the employer.
There was once passed legislation (1978, I think) dictating that pregnant women could not be denied the sorts of disability leave offered other employees. Given what some have said here, one wonders whether the pendulum has swung the other way? Acknowledging, or course, that some employers continue to offer equivalently shitty leave to all (which is fair and legal, FMLA aside).
At any rate, CrazyCatLady, I agree with you. If employees with children are given consideration, other employees should not be burdened, nor denied similar and equivalant consideration. I’m glad I work in the office I do–Half the people in the office are parents, and not a one of them has ever exhibited the sorts of behaviors that catsix and others are barraged with continually.
VACATION? I wasn’t on vacation. I was on short term disability at 75% of my salary.
I did my own job while I was out because I couldn’t rely on the complaining bitchy women I worked with to cover anything for me. Plus, they would have screwed it up anyway. (3 out of the 4 women in my office had children and I had covered for them numerous times. The one who didn’t have kids had taken off a month for a sick distant relative and I helped cover for her).
I came back to my office for a client meeting 6 days after my son was born. Granted, I was only there for a couple hours but it was an important client and I didn’t trust any of the people I worked with to handle it.
I also have a home office so I could check my email and faxes while out and I did on a fairly regular basis.
Fortunately for me, I stood up for myself and talked to my boss well in advance about accomodating my pregnancy. I worked out something suitable to both me and my boss. I could care less what any coworkers thought…my boss was okay with it…I was okay with it. That is all that I was concerned with.
I didn’t ask any coworker to do a damn thing for me while I was out.
And as far as my leaving work to attend events for my kids…I’m at a point in my career that I don’t have to be in my office 40 hours a week to accomplish my job. I pretty much come and go when I want and do work from the road or from home so nobody is having to “cover” for me.
You’re right and lesson learned on my part. I got the impression from my boss that he had just talked to HR about it and so at the time I saw no need to go to them myself to hear the same thing. The problem with our HR head is he is notorious for putting people off and then never getting back to you, and I think my boss was trying to do me a favor by talking to him himself, as he might be addressed more quickly than I would.
In the 3 years that I have worked here, 2 others have gone on maternity leave and one on short term disability, and the policy was different each time. The whole thing is just one confusing mess.
Tulipgirl thanks for the well-wishes. I haven’t heard any other comments from head of HR since then, and the HR woman who works for him has encouraged me to take the full leave.
Hopefully I will have an easier time nursing than some of the people in this thread. I am more than a little apprehensive about it.
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Well, until hedra, with her well researched knowledge about breastfeeding shows up, Dangerosa with her personal breastfeeding hell may do.
My milk did not come in for a week.
My daughter did not latch at all during the first week
I pumped to try and establish the milk supply, but never got more than a few ounces A DAY.
Once my milk came in, we nursed for about a week.
Then a got a screaming case of mastitis.
Then we were back to nursing again.
We caught hang on it when she was about a month old. We were never very good at it (I have girlfriends who could nurse while reading, sleeping, walking, doing dishes. We had to sit in a certain type of chair in a certain way in a quiet room).
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When I went to work, the stubborn girl (she is still stubborn at 4 1/2) refused a bottle at daycare. Took a full day of trying every nipple available to find one she would take (or maybe she just got hungry enough to no longer care)
I pumped at work. I was never a good pumper. It took about half an hour three times a day to pump enough to feed my daughter. This was with a hospital grade Medelia pump and I was taking fenugeek. If I could squeeze in an extra pumping, I could stockpile a little milk so grandma or dad could feed her on occation.
We’d also nurse several times at home. Within two days of my daughter deciding to no longer nurse, I could not pump and manage to get anything at all. Gone. Dried up completely.
Nursing is not easy for everyone.
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Well you are very lucky that you could use formula if you wished. I wonder what women did in the days before formula, did their babies just starve to death? In nature, a baby that doesn’t feed just doesn’t survive. I can’t imagine what mothers went through before formula…nursing left my mother with two scabs for nipples. We ate formula and turned out exceptionally healthy. My brother and I hardly ever got sick, have no allergies to this day and have high IQs.
(TMI) My nipples are sore for a week after some mild foreplay, I can’t imagine how much nursing would hurt. Thank god for pumps and formula. Those two things go a long way to allowing mothers to continue working and having lives, and allowing fathers to do their fare share. And no, you’re not a horrible mother if you use formula, IMHO. If you can’t nurse, you can’t nurse, just be glad we live in a day and age where there are healthy alternatives. I can imagine many a baby died over the course of human history if these nursing problems are so common.
Exactly. Reading this thread makes me very frustrated, because it just reminds me that, as a woman, you just can’t win. Sure, it would be fantastic if a parent could stay at home for the kid’s entire childhood…wow I wish I were so rich. But most people aren’t. So you have a choice to make: 1) don’t have kids if you can’t afford them 2) have kids and work (like my parents did) 3) stay home and be poor and get food stamps or 4) win the lottery or get a rich husband.
And it also makes me mad how it seems there is this assumption that is has to be the woman who should stay home. Whether it be because your c-section incision is still healing or you have to breastfeed (God forbid you use formula) or it would ruin Junior’s life to spend 8 hours a day with grandma! Why can’t the man stay home? Just because I have the mammary glands means I have to put my career on hold? I guess my main point is, don’t have kids unless you have the money and you have a plan worked out. Kids are a voluntary decision. If it’s too hard to have them, if the pregancy sucks and the delivery sucks, and breastfeeding sucks and not getting enough leave sucks, well don’t have kids. It’s not like the species is going to die out anytime soon. I’m sick of hearing so much complaining about how darn tough it is to be a mother. If you don’t like it, don’t do it.
Addendum: A perfect example happened today at work. Our office manager was out AGAIN because her kid was sick. Well why the heck can’t her husband stay home with the kid for once? It is always her who stays home, and damn if those kids aren’t sick all the time! So because she has little kids at home, she can just stay home whenever she pleases, no questions asked. And while any time I want to take off is scruitinized. And I we all have to make up for her while she is gone. It’s just not fair.
You ever wonder if the kid really is sick all the time or if your office manager just knows that it’s an unquestioned day off if she says ‘kid’s sick, gotta stay home’?
More important to you… But maybe not to eveyone. Remember, “the fucking planet isn’t all about” you and your kids. Why should I have to lend any sort of hand because you decided to reproduce? My mom and dad/friends/cats are just as important to me as your kids are to you, I am sure. I don’t expect you to care about my parents/cats/friends, and you shouldn’t expect me to care about your kids.
To YOU…
Making the world a better place for everyone is the most important thing in the world to me, which is what I spend 9 hours a day doing at my job.
Well whether our society can continue to keep supporting so many new lives is debatable, but that is for another thread. Congratulations that your husband makes enough money to allow you to stay home with your kids. But in my opinion, (just my opinion, mind you) part of creating a worthwhile human being is living up to your responsibility working to support them in the best way possible, to give them all the opportunities possible…and to set a positive example for them so that they will strive to have careers and be successful someday…I would not want my daughter to grow up thinking that the woman’s place is in the home, and it’s the daddy that goes to work everyday. I would never want my daughter to aspire to that, because she would be worth so much more than that. Both my parents worked while I was growing up, and I am so proud and grateful that my mom did so, because she served as such a positive role model to me, and I feel it was that positive example that has helped get me to where I am today, which is a successful career woman with a good education, self-supporting, unlike many of my high school friends who are stuck at home with kids and no job experience and no intellectual achievements… The best example my mom made for me is that a woman can have it all, kids and a satisfying career, and the kids won’t turn out like they were raised by a pack of wolves. My brother and I have turned out to be above average in all aspects.
Just because something is the “most important thing in the world” to you, doesn’t mean it is to everyone. Please keep that in mind. To me, the most important thing in the world would be to raise a worthwhile human being AND contribute to society by continuing to work and help make the world a better place while at the same time serving as a positive role model to my kids.
This is a very pat and unrealistic view of this “problem” You could attach your neat and tidy solution to any milestone in life.
Can’t afford to go to college and have plenty of time to study and make perfect As"? Don’t go to college then, because God knows we don’t need half-assed, snotnosed, wet behind the ears college kids screwing up our orders, and sullenly waiting on us from behind coffee counters.
Everything one does in life is going to inconvenience someone else in some way. Even if it’s just going to the grocery store. Juuuuust when you’re approaching the 96% fat free hamburger section, that’s when the 90+ year old grandma decides to take 5 years to ambulate past that section, with her walker effectively blocking you from grabbing what you need and going.
What? Grandma’s shouldn’t be allowed out unless they’re fully ambulatory and give quick and full right of way to the young and fast?
Where, in THIS thread, has anyone whined, or complained about the above items? When, in answer to the many posts complaining and whining…“well, can’t you just pump your breast milk”?
Others have explained that “no, some women don’t have that much production, so that wouldn’t work” that’s called a REASON why they take longer maternity leaves. If the milk isn’t there, it isn’t there. How is explaining the biology behind breastfeeding “whining”??
So is the simple matter that C-sections take longer to heal. These are medical facts. How is that "complaining and whining that “it’s too hard”?
Questions were asked regarding why 6 weeks was recommended by doctors. These questions were answered by women who’d actually HAD the experience of childbirth. Now, the answers to the questions that were asked are being labeled as “whining and complaining”. That’s just bad debating skills.
Again, if a woman’s maternity leave (whether she’s paid or unpaid) doesn’t take money out of YOUR paycheck, or add work to YOUR desk, or hours to YOUR week. What the hell difference does it make why a person is absent? How childish can you get? It’s between them and the boss.
IF, however, there are attempts to shift a person’s work (for WHATEVER reason he/she is gone too much), to your desk, or onto YOUR weekly hours and especially without compensation. Then THAT, my dears is YOUR fault if you take it, refuse to stand up for your rights as a worker, and shift the blame to “working mothers and maternity leave”.
I’ve been working at various jobs since I was about 12, when I got my first babysitting job. I wondered into the “corporate America” world at 15 and worked at (oh yay) McDonalds. I’m now 45 and have been working ever since. I have seen all sorts of people pull all sorts of crap to get out of work. And it’s as varied as people are. Blaming it on maternity leave and working mom’s is just silly.
I’ve worked for Doctors who took the 'Wednesday" golf game to new lows (causing office workers to scramble with new explanations to patients and reschedulings). I’ve had bosses who were a LEeeetle too fond of the bottle and who seemed to disappear at critical times.
If a person, or sets of persons are doing wrong, then THEY are the assholes. Not the particular group they happen to belong to (whether that be golfers, OR working moms, or even drunks for that matter, as long as they keep it off the roads and out of the office). In this case working moms. And if you allow them, where them is the management, to treat you differently than another employee, regardless of WHY that other employee is getting special treatment, then you’ve created your own situation.
Either stand up for yourself, or don’t. Either way, it’s your call.
I would hope that your daughter understands that she could choose to stay home with her children if she wanted to-- that she doesn’t have to work in order for her life to be worthwhile.
My sister-in-law is a mother of three who has chosent to stay at home with her kids until they’re in school. She has a Master’s degree in engineering, and had a very successful career until she chose to have children. She believes children should have one parent with them in the home during their most formative years. My brother-in-law had more senority and benefits in his job, so she decided to be the one who stayed with the kids. (However, had their work situations been reversed, he would be the one at home.)
She doesn’t feel “stuck” with her children. As she told me, “If I didn’t want to raise kids, I wouldn’t have had any.” She feels that raising her kids is more important a job than being an engineer.
Whether you agree with her or not, it’s her choice to make, and I think it should be respected.
That’s great. You must have had wondeful parents. However, many parents aren’t as successful in juggling family and career, and their children end up suffering for it.
Too many parents seem to see their children as almost an automatic accessory to marriage-- an afterthought, rather than a serious commitment to responsibilty. I’ve seen too many parents give their kids less care than they would a houseplant. The problem, of course, isn’t working parents, it’s neglectful parents. And too many people seem to take their careers as an excuse for that kind of behavior.
It’s a fine line to walk. Some children are more needy than others-- what one woman may be able to do, another may not. A woman should not automatically expect she can go back to her career with no problems after having kids. She may find that she does need to stay with them-- hopefully not resenting the interruption of her career path.
I have concerns that in pressing women to be “more” that we make them feel that they’re worthless unless they have a career. I know I certainly don’t get my sense of self-worth from my job (as much as I love it, and as satisfying as it is) and I feel sorry for any woman who does.
Like your first quote addresses, EVERYTHING one does in life is going to inconvenience someone. By your own standard, this will inconvenience SOMEONE in the company’s employ.
Personally, I’m not saying women don’t have a right to their DISABILITY PAY for having a baby. If your employer offers it, ANY disability situation should be paid. Do I think people need a YEAR off paid for having a baby like they do in some countries? Hellllll no, and I’m an RN so people can spare me the development issues, etc. I’m aware. I’m off track in this post, because my issue IS NOT with disability leave for HAVING the baby, mine is with people who expect special treatment for things like vacation time, not working holidays, or getting extra sick days because they have children. Just as you experienced the doctors who golf on Wednesday, I can’t tell you how many people I have worked with who think their offspring give them a ticket to sainthood and a get out of work free card.
then we go on to:
Come again? I work with a woman who calls out a lot. When she calls out, she usually states that her children are sick. I guess I should tell patients “Sorry, you’ll have to sit here and wait because Susie called out and I’m not about to let her shift her work on to me. That would be MY fault if I allow that to happen. I’m standing up for my rights as a worker, sorry you got the shit end of it though.”
Sorry, but I work in the real world. The real world where I have a job to do, bills to pay, and patients in trauma situations that don’t give me the luxury to stand up to “the man” and put my nose in another worker’s issue. Even when I worked in offices while I was in college, I learned quickly that someone who calls out frequently is NONE of my business and bitching and whining (even in a calm, constructive fashion) is a sure way to get the old “This is between the company and them, and none of your business.” Saying “I’m sorry Mr Bossman, Susie called off again and I’m tired of her doing it so I can’t allow myself to be used by finishing her share.” will get me a fast ticket to the unemployment line.
Right, which is why I said I new I would not reach a meeting of minds with a lot of people. My point of view on this - which I thought I made clear - is that raising worthwhile human beings is the most important thing in the world to me…because when I’m wormfood they’ll still be working to make things keep going. Now, some of that is "…in spite of the number of people who are raised who are NOT “worthwhile human beings.” To me, that means murderers and the like. I don’t mean “not worth drawing breath,” just “not particularly improving the planet as a whole.”
I’m pretty sure that no one anywhere in this thread is arguing that you should.
Well, it’s been really tight, and we live paycheck-to-paycheck. BUT…daycare for three kids would cost more than I could bring home, so this is really the most financially sensible alternative. Therefore, thanks for the congratulations, but they’re undeserved.
See, and this is as insulting to me as what I said was to artemis. You’re implying that, by staying home, I am instilling in my children the belief that women who stay home with their kids are somehow not a positive example.
And thank you very much for insinuating that, because I am staying home with my kids, I am worth less than someone who goes out and does a job which brings in money.
And all of them were, of course, raised in houses where Richard Von Father worked all day and Downtrodden McMother had his slippers ready and dinner done promptly at 6:00pm.
Well, my eldest looks as though he’s slightly, but not screamingly, above-average. The other two, we’re waiting on. None of them are zombies yet, though, so maybe if I throw them in daycare and go to work they’ll still have a fighting chance to lead intellectually rich lives with successful careers.
Which I thought I made clear.
Which implies that I won’t be serving as a positive role model to my kids if I don’t get a “REAL job.”
I really hate than when people are making a case FOR a parent staying home, they always have to point out that “S/he has four masters degrees…worked in Madagascar saving endangered marmosets/took a year off to build houses for the disadvantaged.” It seems as though a parent can’t make the choice to stay home and NOT be given eight tons of shit, unless that parent COULD HAVE done WAY more important/better paying things but GAVE IT ALL UP for the CHILDREN.
Man. And here I thought staying home with my kids was a good idea.
Actually, I think my sister-in-law is an ideal case. Because of her Master’s degree, should something happen to her husband, she could support herself and her children very well. Shouldn’t a woman be able to stand on her own, even if she has decided to stay at home?
In her opinion, she didn’t “give up” a damn thing. Hell, she did everything “right”, didn’t she? She went to college, had a career, got married, and then made a decision about where she wanted to go in life. How would it be better if she had no education or prospects for a good career?
I’m not saying it would be better, because obviously it wouldn’t. I think your SIL has thought long and hard about her choices, and she’s obviously done a lot of work to get where she is, and should be heartily commended! Hell, I am sure applauding her.
I’m just SAYING that often a housewi - errrr, “stay-at-home-mom” is given a bunch of shit for staying with her kids UNLESS she also has a Masters, etc. It comes across as “Linda stays at home with her kids and it’s okay because she ALSO did all of this stuff, but Lucy never finished college so having babies and being a housewife is all she’s ABLE to do.”
That’s not exactly what I mean, but I have been sitting here thinking and I can’t come up with the right way to explain what I mean. I guess it’s that people like your SIL are held up as people who “got a Master’s AND had a baby so she is BETTER than people who just have babies.” That is probably not the intention, but that’s the way it comes across.
What, no refutation of the breast feeding/six week leave facts we gave you? No admitting you’re wrong on that point? You have no rebuttal so you dig for some other issue?
I can’t speak to your sister in law, but one of my girlfriends is going through a tough time right now. She has a master’s degree. Elected to stay home and raise her children while her husband (who made quite a bit of money) worked. He’s lost his income in the economy, and she is discovering that a masters degree in a field she hasn’t been in for five years is worth squat in this economy.
The company I work for laid off several hundred engineers - many with Masters and PhD’s, last year. Many of them are still out of work.
The deal is - we are screwed. If we remain childfree, our aunts bother us endlessly about reproducing. We end up covering for co-workers with more important things to do than work - like go to peewee hockey games (or the single coworkers who have more important things to do than work - like fall madly in love and then have traumatic breakups every three months - ending up taking off as much time as the woman whose three year old is subject to constant ear infections). But we have “time” and nothing better to do than to fill in for our coworkers. After all, we have neither children nor a dramatic love life. If we have children and stay at home, we risk the financial security of two incomes, and get the derision of those who wonder if we are staying at home because we couldn’t hack it in the “real world” (like cleaning up poop from the walls is less challenging than most jobs). If we have kids and keep working, people want to know why we bothered with children if we are going to let someone else raise them, and we get to try and balance a 45 hour work week, children, housekeeping, soccer practice, being a decent wife and still find time to go get a haircut on occation. And yet, we are the lucky ones with choices - imagine finding yourself a single mother - few choices but to work, no one to help with the kids.
The deal is, you need to be secure in YOUR OWN choices. And you need to not be so much of a doormat that someone elses choices become a major hassle for you. But, the point that we are all inconvieniced by others is a good one (I was behind someone in the express checkout (seven or less) lane yesterday with fifteen items! And I was in a hurry and had ONE!) It really sucks that one of my coworkers has significantly impacted my project timeline because he is never in the office because his wife is dying of cancer. But I’m pretty sure it sucks more that his wife is dying than my project ended up delayed six months.
Because birth is supposed to be a “blessed event” and chosen, some people believe that it shouldn’t be covered the same way as having hernia surgery, getting into an accident and needing a month in the hospital, or taking time to care for an elderly parent or ill spouse. And yes, some people can show up at work forty eight hours after giving birth (you really didn’t want me to pass that blood clot at work though - EHS would have had chickens to have that much blood fall out of my body) - just as some people could show up a week after their hysterectomy. But insurance companies (who are not really interested in paying for more time than they need to) have worked with doctors to determine “reasonable” guidelines for leave for events like hernia surgery and childbirth.
Your last comment sounds like a dig to me–like “how can Nursing REALLY be that hard? If it was, lots of babies would have starved to death, and we all know that’s not true”
A few facts about why more women (and babies) in modern society have trouble breastfeeding. pumping, etc.:
Before formula, women weren’t working outside the home as often. So the whole pumping question didn’t come into play.
Babywearing, “nursing on demand” and sleeping with the baby promote successful breastfeeding–these are practices which have fallen out of favor in many technologically advanced societies.
Before formula (and in more traditional societies) Family groups were/are larger and closer in proximity. New mothers have the benefit of numerous other experience female relatives to both help out generally when a new baby comes, AND to provide breastfeeding advice, assistance and support.
Since so many women did nurse in the past, and do so in other cultures, it was/is easier (and more acceptable) to locate a wet nurse, or friend or cousin or sibling, to nurse the baby in the event of maternal problems.
Galactogogues were/are better known and more common.
Some people also believe that the absence of birth interventions also mean that babies are more likely and better able to nurse successfully. Granted, it also means that more babies and moms died in childbirth, but the babies who make it weren’t drugged, had their lungs squeezed clear, didn’t have suction or forceps, etc. It’s not known how much of a factor this is, of course, but it’s a theory some have floated.
So.
Just because formula is safe and an acceptable substitute, that is not an aceptable argument that working mothers should not take the time to establish a breastfeeding relationship if that’s what they choose. Your anecdotes about yourself and your brother are nice and they certainly mirror what many thousands of us can say, but it doesn’t change the fact that research bears out that breastfeeding is preferable for a number of reasons. If a family decides to breastfeed, than it makes sense for society to support that effort. Hence that legislation that is being passed for pumping rooms, and not being thrown out of Walmart for nursing, AND partly why it’s worthwhile for moms to spend some uninterrupted weeks (PAID, OR UNPAID; UNFAIR EMPLOYER WHO SHITS ON THE REST OF YOU, OR NOT) with the baby after the delivery.
This is a ludicrous tangent. I am disappointed you feel that just because YOU know people who successfully pumped, and just because YOUR MOM happily used formula, that this negates the factor of breastfeeding in a discussion about appropriate leave. You’re not adequately informed about the issue to argue this, and we’re dragging out a long thread even longer. I’m afraid you need to accept that while your opinions about how fair “leave” are yours to put forth and promote as you will, you’re underinformed and therefore wrong about the breastfeeding FACTS and their role in “maternity leave” policies. There’s a troubling correlation between typical length of breastfeeding and typical “maternity leave” in developed countries, for reasons that could fill a book.
I was out half a day yesterday because my baby had an ear infection and a fever of 103. I gotta tell you, sitting there listening to him scream in pain, struggling to get him to drink even a few ounces, with his fever high enough that his skin was near-scorching just to hold–I never once had the thought “Oh goody, I get a half-day off work!”
If nothing else this thread serves as a great example of why the FMLA is necessary. Can you imagine working for people with attitudes like some of those exposed in this thread if they *weren’t * mandated by federal law to behave like human beings?
I assume you were aiming this at me? Well this isn’t a breastfeeding thread, but as I alluded to before, I certainly don’t think breastfeeding is rocket science. It’s been happening since mammals have appeared on Earth millions of years ago. It would really irk me if a coworker took off even more than 6 weeks just for breastfeeding. Come on people, that stuff coming out of your mammary glands isn’t liquid gold. The year is 2004, and commercial formulas are very very good, and are lifesavers for women who can’t breastfeed. Your kid certainly isn’t going to shrivel up and die if you go back to work after 6 weeks and have the caretaker feed the kid formula while you are at work. Most of the women I know (including my mom) fed their babies formula and we all turned out just fine. Like I said before, I am extremely healthy, hardly ever get sick, have no allergies…and I am glad that my mom didn’t have to torture herself breastfeeding me. I am sure it was hard enough taking care of us without having her nipples turn into oozing scabs.
The point is, I am sick of people making it out like your kid is going to die or suffer greatly if they are sucking on a rubber nipple instead of your own. I would rather go back to work and make money so I could support the kid in the best way possible than stay at home and be a human milk dispenser while my experience and education and money making ability goes to waste.
In school, my favorite subject was reading. What was yours. I quoted CATSIX in my reply, so what in the world would make you think I was directing it at you?
Well hoo-bully for you. Ever consider that other women consider time spent bonding and nurturing a child as the best possible use of their education and experience? And the best possible way to support them? I can’t imagine describing the time I spend with my kids as a “waste”, and if that’s the way you feel then it’s a damn good thing you don’t plan to have any.
Not to mention costs involved in formula, you self-righteous twit. I eeked along breastfeeding for about five months after I returned to work. I struggled the entire time with keeping my supply up and finding time to pump at work and I figure I saved at least a couple grand that would have gone to formula. I didn’t do it out of a silly attachment to nursing, but because I COULDN’T FUCKING AFFORD TO BOTTLE FEED. I doubt very much that I’m alone in that. Are you going to pay for the formula for every baby of a working mother so that we can all conform to your precious standard? Jesus christ, stop while you’re ahead. Your ignorance is showing and, frankly, it’s embarrassing.