So rage-y right now!

[baytosa2013]

You guys I'm so fucking irritated right now!  Generally I'm one to let shit slide and I am certainly not one to comment on the internets but this just put me over the edge.  I got home early today to take the kiddo to the Dr.  I got her bottle ready and turned on the TV to watch whatever was on while feeding her.  That show "The Dr's" was on.  They were talking about 2 women who had children and the one friend BF her friends kid...ok whatever...to each they're own.  Then one of the Dr's made my fucking head explode when she said that breast milk is of course best and that the adolescent children who are breast fed are going to be healthier and smarter than those who are not.  I got so mad that I actually commented on their page.  

[dmoney]

i just read an article the other day that said the old saying of breastfed babys having an higher IQ is no longer true. Keep your head up! You are doing nothing wrong! And let us know what they come back and say!!

[turtletyme]

I am sure they will be forced to apologize. The problem with these pseudo medical shows (see also Oz) is that people, such as my easily influenced MIL, treat them as medical fact and not entertainment. I am so sick of people weighing in on how I feed my kid.

[wegrowsheep]

Pretty sure that kids that eat have higher IQ's than kids that starve to death. I think that covers it.

And although I EBF, I get a little jealous of the FF moms out there. Because date night...

[wegrowsheep]

Oct 5, 2015 16:07:14 GMT -5 sammyca said:

That just makes my head explode.

Ironically, this is how my head feels right now. DH just texted me to see if I had a dinner plan.. Wine and advil.

[jessila]

In talking to my mother about her pregnancies and babies and such I learned that in the early 1970s they pushed formula feeding. The doctors didn't know what was in breastmilk therefore it wasn't safe for babies.

[erbear]

Oct 5, 2015 17:13:17 GMT -5 jessila said:

In talking to my mother about her pregnancies and babies and such I learned that in the early 1970s they pushed formula feeding. The doctors didn't know what was in breastmilk therefore it wasn't safe for babies.

Oh yeah. My mom had babies in 1968, 1970, and 1984 and breastfeeding was never presented as an option. Hell, my sister had her first baby in 1992 and it wasn't until her 4th baby in 2000 that breastfeed in was encouraged.

I hate these doctor shows, too.

[thecatsmeow]

Oct 5, 2015 18:01:25 GMT -5 budders said:

Oct 5, 2015 17:13:17 GMT -5 jessila said:

In talking to my mother about her pregnancies and babies and such I learned that in the early 1970s they pushed formula feeding. The doctors didn't know what was in breastmilk therefore it wasn't safe for babies.

MIL said the same for H who was born in 1980. My mom breastfed my sisters and I, but I think that was a cost thing more than anything else.

I was surprised when my MIL talked about breastfeeding her 3 kids in the late 70s - early 80s. They also co-slept with the younger two as babies. At first I thought she was so ahead of her time, then realized she probably was looked at as behind the times for not doing formula. Honestly though, cost was most likely a factor and also she was the oldest of eight, breastfeeding probably wasn't a totally foreign idea to her!

[baytosa2013]

Definitely agree that it continues to push bad info to people who take these shows as some sort of medical fact. Completely stupid to say things like that especially when 1. The dr is a WOMAN and should be supporting both breast and formula and 2. I'd bet money a huge demographic for them is the SAHM. People like that say shit that egg on the mommy wars when she should be trying to facilitate healthy babies period.