A Plea on Behalf of ALL NON-BREASTFEEDING Mothers out There!
Jun 04 '00
Okay so I have already written an opinion about breastfeeding, but I just had to write another one. You see the other day I was perusing through the just in section and I came across some ones opinion about breastfeeding. I really feel the need to address what was written.
Now as many of you may already know from reading my first opinion about breastfeeding, I did not breastfeed. I will not go into the reasons again. If you want to know my reasoning, then you will just have to go and read that other opinion that I wrote. It is called “I am Not So Sure That Breastfeeding is Best for Everyone”. You can find this at: http://www.epinions.com/kifm-review-4A1A-10702411-38F4F254-prod5
Now the person’s opinion that I did read was an avid believer in breastfeeding, which is fine. As a matter of fact she was such an avid believer in breastfeeding that she decided to give it a try one day on her baby cousin when she was only fourteen years old. Why she told us this I do not know, but that is not the point here.
The problem that I had with this opinion is the way the author was trying to force her beliefs on us. This is the problem that I have with many people that feel everyone must breastfeed. Now I know many people are going to get upset with me about this, but I do not care.
Let us look at this situation from another point of view. How would those people out there who feel the need to attack those of us who chose not to breastfeed our babies to be attacked for breastfeeding their babies. Okay this may sound a little confusing. What I mean is how would you like it if when I found out that you were going to breastfeed I started making comments like, “oh it would be so much better if you bottle fed your baby and it is so much more convenient and less painful to do.” You see this is what the comments from those of you who feel everyone should breastfeed sounds like to those of us that do not wish to breastfeed or can not breastfeed. Actually it probably sounds worse to those women who can not breastfeed because that was something they really wanted to do when they got pregnant. None the less it does still hurt.
Now if the author of the opinion about reasons why you should breastfeed had just given us her reasoning for why she thinks breastfeeding is better than bottle feeding and what her experience was with breastfeeding, then I would not even be writing this opinion today.
I am not saying that her opinion is wrong or invalid by any means. What I am saying, however, is that she did not have to attack (in a manner of speaking) those women who have chosen for various reasons to not breastfeed.
This kind of attitude is exactly why the breastfeeding issue is such a heated debate. Everyone has their own way of doing things. For one person breastfeeding might be a good thing, but for another person breastfeeding might not be such a good thing. I think that so long as a person is making an informed decision she should not be criticized in this way. Now chances are that when the woman is pregnant she will visit the doctor numerous times in a month and that doctor is eventually going to start talking to you about your option of breastfeeding or not breastfeeding. Most likely when you first go to the doctor you will get a whole bunch of literature about various different kinds of issues, one of them being breastfeeding your baby.
It is the mother’s choice of whether or not she wants to breastfeed. There is no need for anyone else to force their ideas on a person. There are other ways of telling someone the benefits of breastfeeding with out saying, every mother should give breastfeeding a try.
I just want to let all you mother’s to be out there who are not sure if you want to breastfeed, it is your decision. You can not let anyone else make it for you. You must weigh all of the factors and then decide what is the best thing for you and your baby. You can not let anyone push you around and force you to do something that you do not want to do.
Well I guess that is all for now. Thank you for reading and please do not rate me too harshly. Thank you.
Monica
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