Ten Out of Ten Babies Prefer Breastmilk
So Benj forwarded me this today.
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I hate people. And I especially hate mothers who make crappy choices. And I really especially hate it when people then blame those choices on everyone but themselves. And I loathe people who feel the need to get all offended and defend their right to make those shitty choices.
Breastfeeding is by far the best source of food that your baby can have.
In fact, do you know what the World Health Organisation's baby-food preference matrix is?
1 - Breastfed by the baby's mother
2 - The mother's milk by other means (eg. expressed & bottle fed)
3 - Another mother's milk by any means
4 - Artificial (formula) milk
That's pretty clear to me.
That in mind, everything I'm about to say is fact. It's not opinion or conjecture or an interpretation of the truth. It's just the plain, simple facts.
* If you choose to have a child*, you then choose to breastfeed that child. Deciding not to for your own fucking convenience is like choosing to have a child but then deciding not to give birth to it, opting instead to have it cut out of your body. Hang on, that already happens! No wonder people don't realise what choosing motherhood actually entails.
* NEWFLASH! BREASTFEEDING HURTS! For the first couple of days, weeks sometimes, it's incredibly painful. Cracked & bleeding nipples, afterpain contractions, it's no picnic. But then you & baby both get used to it, and it stops hurting. So to all those women who 'tried' to feed but couldn't stand the pain - shut the fuck up.
* "My baby wasn't gaining enough weight..." Okay, this pisses me off so much I can hardly think straight. This is a double gripe, actually. First up, if you're trying to get your infant onto a routine, then you're a moron. This will decrease your milk supply, therefore leading to a baby who doesn't gain weight. You know what, even if your baby's bottlefed, you shouldn't be using a routine you psycho control freak. And if healthy breastfed babies are being forced onto formula because they fail to meet some arbitrary standard for weight gain, then isn't that just a pretty convincing reason to stop the routine weighing of healthy infants?
* Formula will never, ever be as good as breastmilk. If you're the kind of moronic slag who believes that it's actually better than breastmilk because it has 'added vitamins', then you deserve to be punched in your big empty head.
* Breastfeeding is infinitely more convenient than bottle feeding. Yes, the mother has to be there each time, but you know what? She CHOSE* to take on that role, and breastfeeding's just what mothers do. There's no sterilising, boiling, measuring, heating or cooling. When my baby looks hungry (and he never gets round to crying because he never has to wait that long) I just open my bra & let him latch on. And I don't buy that breastfeeding mothers lose too much sleep. When my baby feeds at night I hardly even wake because he actually sleeps right next to me in my bed where he belongs, not off in some other room down the other end of the house.
* Teeth do not mean you have to wean. Some fuck-knob in the comments of that article claimed that mammals wean when their young start teething. Almost. Actually, primates studied tend to wean when their young have their first permanent molars. That's the human equivalent of 5 - 6 years old.
* Breastfeeding an older child is not weird. If babies are left to wean themselves, that usually happens between 3 & 7 years of age, mostly around 3 or 4. Why would they continue to do it if there was no value to them? The health benefits continue for as long as the milk is produced. And if random strangers have issues with toddlers breastfeeding, that's their own fucking problem. They have no persuasive argument against it other than that, in their cultural opinion, it's gross.
* And don't even get me started on the people that think breastfeeding at any age is disgusting. What the fuck?! I'm pretty sure that these people have drunk milk at some point in their lives. Guess what? IT COMES FROM A COW'S TITS! Gross, hey? Guess you'd better boycott all those dairy products. I understand that there are emotionally retarded men out there who see breasts purely as their own sexual playthings, which is why they feel this way, but it just makes me sad when women go on about how much they hate it.
* I know that hospitals suck at encouraging you to breastfeed. I was unfortunate enough to have to give birth in a hospital, and I was shocked at the blase manner in which they discussed feeding. They seemed to have no preference and saw nothing strange in perfectly health women choosing to formula feed from birth. I, however, had actually been arsed to make myself informed about pregnancy, birth, babies, etc., so knew without doubt that I'd be breastfeeding. Yes, it hurt. No, I didn't really know what to do. I worked it out and I kept going all by myself. And if you need outside help, the Breastfeeding Association offers free counselling & advice. From what I understand, a lot of women find breastfeeding difficult initially but, assuming they don't want to immediately relegate themselves to the scrapheap of worthless mothers, there's plenty of help out there.
* I refuse to make any disclaimers about women who wanted to feed but couldn't. As I've said, I don't believe that most of those women truly couldn't feed. It was just very difficult. And for those who truly couldn't feed, they won't have anything to feel guilty about, and so won't take offence at any of this. I maintain that anyone who does get upset knows that they made a shitful decision and is looking to put that guilt they're feeling onto somebody else.
* If you can't give your baby breastmilk because you're going back to work & are to lazy to express your milk, then perhaps you should have thought about the fact that you can't afford to have a baby before you got pregnant*, you impoverished skank.
* If you think formula feeding is better because then the mother can drink/go out without her baby/wear a fucking see-through top, or so that the daddy can give the little baby a bottle, then grow the fuck up.
Oh, I'm sure there's more, but it's late and I should really be off to bed. Plus I've managed to get myself ridiculously angry. You know, I think what pisses me off the most is the whole 'ooh, you should be nice to women who can't breastfeed, because they didn't know/didn't get help and they're already feeling bad about it'.
Good! They deserve to be feeling bad about it.
If women aren't prepared to actually raise their baby how that child deserves to be raised, they should feel guilty. If women don't have the brains to read up or ask around about things that are relevant to mothers, then they should feel worthless. If women don't have the fucking strength of character to perservere in the face of pain, crappy advice, disapproval, fatigue or postnatal hormones, then they deserve to feel that they've failed their child.
Breastfeeding isn't a choice, it's just what mothers do.
* And don't give me any shit about not having any choice about having a baby. That's what abortion is for, fucktard.
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!
I hate people. And I especially hate mothers who make crappy choices. And I really especially hate it when people then blame those choices on everyone but themselves. And I loathe people who feel the need to get all offended and defend their right to make those shitty choices.
Breastfeeding is by far the best source of food that your baby can have.
In fact, do you know what the World Health Organisation's baby-food preference matrix is?
1 - Breastfed by the baby's mother
2 - The mother's milk by other means (eg. expressed & bottle fed)
3 - Another mother's milk by any means
4 - Artificial (formula) milk
That's pretty clear to me.
That in mind, everything I'm about to say is fact. It's not opinion or conjecture or an interpretation of the truth. It's just the plain, simple facts.
* If you choose to have a child*, you then choose to breastfeed that child. Deciding not to for your own fucking convenience is like choosing to have a child but then deciding not to give birth to it, opting instead to have it cut out of your body. Hang on, that already happens! No wonder people don't realise what choosing motherhood actually entails.
* NEWFLASH! BREASTFEEDING HURTS! For the first couple of days, weeks sometimes, it's incredibly painful. Cracked & bleeding nipples, afterpain contractions, it's no picnic. But then you & baby both get used to it, and it stops hurting. So to all those women who 'tried' to feed but couldn't stand the pain - shut the fuck up.
* "My baby wasn't gaining enough weight..." Okay, this pisses me off so much I can hardly think straight. This is a double gripe, actually. First up, if you're trying to get your infant onto a routine, then you're a moron. This will decrease your milk supply, therefore leading to a baby who doesn't gain weight. You know what, even if your baby's bottlefed, you shouldn't be using a routine you psycho control freak. And if healthy breastfed babies are being forced onto formula because they fail to meet some arbitrary standard for weight gain, then isn't that just a pretty convincing reason to stop the routine weighing of healthy infants?
* Formula will never, ever be as good as breastmilk. If you're the kind of moronic slag who believes that it's actually better than breastmilk because it has 'added vitamins', then you deserve to be punched in your big empty head.
* Breastfeeding is infinitely more convenient than bottle feeding. Yes, the mother has to be there each time, but you know what? She CHOSE* to take on that role, and breastfeeding's just what mothers do. There's no sterilising, boiling, measuring, heating or cooling. When my baby looks hungry (and he never gets round to crying because he never has to wait that long) I just open my bra & let him latch on. And I don't buy that breastfeeding mothers lose too much sleep. When my baby feeds at night I hardly even wake because he actually sleeps right next to me in my bed where he belongs, not off in some other room down the other end of the house.
* Teeth do not mean you have to wean. Some fuck-knob in the comments of that article claimed that mammals wean when their young start teething. Almost. Actually, primates studied tend to wean when their young have their first permanent molars. That's the human equivalent of 5 - 6 years old.
* Breastfeeding an older child is not weird. If babies are left to wean themselves, that usually happens between 3 & 7 years of age, mostly around 3 or 4. Why would they continue to do it if there was no value to them? The health benefits continue for as long as the milk is produced. And if random strangers have issues with toddlers breastfeeding, that's their own fucking problem. They have no persuasive argument against it other than that, in their cultural opinion, it's gross.
* And don't even get me started on the people that think breastfeeding at any age is disgusting. What the fuck?! I'm pretty sure that these people have drunk milk at some point in their lives. Guess what? IT COMES FROM A COW'S TITS! Gross, hey? Guess you'd better boycott all those dairy products. I understand that there are emotionally retarded men out there who see breasts purely as their own sexual playthings, which is why they feel this way, but it just makes me sad when women go on about how much they hate it.
* I know that hospitals suck at encouraging you to breastfeed. I was unfortunate enough to have to give birth in a hospital, and I was shocked at the blase manner in which they discussed feeding. They seemed to have no preference and saw nothing strange in perfectly health women choosing to formula feed from birth. I, however, had actually been arsed to make myself informed about pregnancy, birth, babies, etc., so knew without doubt that I'd be breastfeeding. Yes, it hurt. No, I didn't really know what to do. I worked it out and I kept going all by myself. And if you need outside help, the Breastfeeding Association offers free counselling & advice. From what I understand, a lot of women find breastfeeding difficult initially but, assuming they don't want to immediately relegate themselves to the scrapheap of worthless mothers, there's plenty of help out there.
* I refuse to make any disclaimers about women who wanted to feed but couldn't. As I've said, I don't believe that most of those women truly couldn't feed. It was just very difficult. And for those who truly couldn't feed, they won't have anything to feel guilty about, and so won't take offence at any of this. I maintain that anyone who does get upset knows that they made a shitful decision and is looking to put that guilt they're feeling onto somebody else.
* If you can't give your baby breastmilk because you're going back to work & are to lazy to express your milk, then perhaps you should have thought about the fact that you can't afford to have a baby before you got pregnant*, you impoverished skank.
* If you think formula feeding is better because then the mother can drink/go out without her baby/wear a fucking see-through top, or so that the daddy can give the little baby a bottle, then grow the fuck up.
Oh, I'm sure there's more, but it's late and I should really be off to bed. Plus I've managed to get myself ridiculously angry. You know, I think what pisses me off the most is the whole 'ooh, you should be nice to women who can't breastfeed, because they didn't know/didn't get help and they're already feeling bad about it'.
Good! They deserve to be feeling bad about it.
If women aren't prepared to actually raise their baby how that child deserves to be raised, they should feel guilty. If women don't have the brains to read up or ask around about things that are relevant to mothers, then they should feel worthless. If women don't have the fucking strength of character to perservere in the face of pain, crappy advice, disapproval, fatigue or postnatal hormones, then they deserve to feel that they've failed their child.
Breastfeeding isn't a choice, it's just what mothers do.
* And don't give me any shit about not having any choice about having a baby. That's what abortion is for, fucktard.
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