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[Lise]

Mimi, your son doesn't seem to have toes on the left there....

MP--Me? Lazy? Just unskilled from 1960-1962. I got my first tricycle in 1964. I remember riding it right off the edge of the sidewalk and toppling over. This didn't bode well for my triathlon career.

KG--so, how do the scars look, lo these many years?

Snap--you could say, "My goal is to get out of here without being sued." That always impresses the manager. Good luck!

[crazycanuck]

Snap-you could always tell them your goal is to make it to retirement so you can sit on a nice beach in Australia

I have an ooopps moment from this afternoon-Doggie & I ventured to the beach as we often do. Anyways, she normally is in the back tray of the ute attached to a shortish leash (i can take a pic, it's all humane )..urmm today I forgot to attach her. I was about 1km from home at some traffic lights when i thought..Yukon shouldn't be standing that way in the back... Got onto the freeway a few sec's later, into the emergency lane & attached her properly... Poor doggie *phew*

Lise, I have to ask you..since you're a midwife...Do you think that women are forced & pressured to breastfeed by society?

I saw two articles the other day

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,25436945-2,00.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...apartment.html

In perth recently, a woman was asked to leave a high end restaurant after trying to breastfeed her young baby..so it never ends does it...

No idea why this interests me as i don't plan on having children but I feel sorry for those that do & encounter this issue.

[Lise]

Hi, CC, glad you realized the pup wasn't hooked up!

The breastfeeding stories touch a nerve with me. In short, I think:
-breast milk is normal human food.
-formula is for emergencies.
-we as a culture don't support, educate, and help new moms enough. I know this because I work on the front lines.
-that means access to HELP that comes to your home when things are not going right. That means not going back to a home where there's no help with daily activities. That means education about overcoming some of the simplest problems in breastfeeding. Etc, etc, etc.
-some women suffer from post partum psychosis, and it's tragic. The woman who leapt to her death probably had a number of contributing factors.
-the formula industry is a multi-billion dollar business which invests a lot in promoting the idea that mothers "shouldn't be forced" to breastfeed their babies.
-nutrition is the one thing that a mom can control during pregnancy and the first year of a child's life.

Those are my opinions as a midwife, since you asked. I'm not inviting anyone to defend or explain her own child rearing history or beliefs. Interesting how much ire this raises, though, isn't it?

[Pax]

...Snap--you could say, "My goal is to get out of here without being sued." That always impresses the manager. Good luck!

I am SO going to use that at my next eval!!

[maillotpois]

MP--Me? Lazy? Just unskilled from 1960-1962. I got my first tricycle in 1964. I remember riding it right off the edge of the sidewalk and toppling over. This didn't bode well for my triathlon career.

Just kidding - in that I don't think many of us use our feet much the first 2 years! (I was in remedial PE in elementary school, so I can relate to the rest of it as well.)

[cylegoddess]

Wow, interesting shaped feet!

No sandals? aawwwww, thats so sad!
Those guys feet look like my BFs. he never wears shoes, sun , rain. Im sure snow as well. My feet would be ...blue!

[Crankin]

I was in remedial PE, too (in HS) because I "flunked" the physical fitness test. The test included such important skills such as a basketball shoot. So, I enrolled in the "flab lab," as we called it (though I weighed like 95 lbs) and in that class we ran, did sit ups and other core stuff. After 6 weeks, I outran all of the other girls who had failed the skills test, so I went back in regular PE.
I still can't get a basketball in a hoop or most of the other things that were on that test.

[mtbdarby]

Lise - glad you're on the mend. My foot started to throb in symapthy for your foot, lol. I even had to take my socks off to look at my feet to compare. My right foot is the painful one but looks nothing like yours.

CC - I agree with Lise on the bfing. Boy did I struggle with my son and no one seemed to give a rip. I had to go looking for help and even then we didn't do it for more than a couple months. I was very disappointed.

Gotta go, my 9:00 client is here!

[Crankin]

Well, I was on the other end of the spectrum. I chose to bottle feed (yes I am selfish; I wanted my DH to be able to get up in the middle of the night and do the feeding so I could sleep and not get sick) and got a lot of unsolicited comments from people. Not gonna start an argument about this, since it was over 20 years ago and my boys are normal healthy adults...

[Veronica]

I was bottle fed. I think I'm fairly normal.

I don't think anyone should be questioning whatever the mother decides.

Veronica

[Blueberry]

I don't think anyone should be questioning whatever the mother decides.

Veronica

+1

I have a friend who wanted to breast feed. She tried and tried, but couldn't. (yes, she tried everything. There were medical reasons). She experienced a number of really rude comments. It's a personal choice, and sometimes we don't know the whole story.

[Biciclista]

My new manager wants to meet to discuss my "career goals". Is retirement a career goal?

yeah, are supposed to now list things we do to better ourselves. I listed a painting workshop and cycling and my boss got all fussy with me. I told him, these things make me a better employee too.
He made me take them out.

When I was having babies, breast feeding was treated like outrageous behavior. I was one of the only moms to be that was going to "try" it when i had #1 son in the ward that weekend. (didn't have #2 son in hospital)
I am worried about the future of America where women can't give birth and can't breast feed! the statistics are incredibly frightening to me.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I had both my daughters in a very good hospital in Puerto Rico 27 and 30 years ago.
I was treated like a freak when I insisted on breastfeeding, and I had to really get tough to make them bring my babies to me every 2 hours to feed instead of waiting 4 hours like 'normal'. They said I probably didn't have enough milk (even though I was BURSTING with it). They also kept wanting to feed them glucose water in bottles- when I told them NO to that, they argued that my babies might get dehydrated if they didn't drink the sugar water bottles. !!! They tried to make me feel backwards and barbaric and unfit. Imagine!! Glad I stuck to my guns.

[Biciclista]

omigoodness i forgot the glucose!
my son never nursed the day we were in the hospital and i thought something was wrong with ME. The nurses had been giving him glucose every 4 hours. Without consulting me.
It's a good thing I checked out 24 hours after his birth which barely gave the proud daddy time to find some basics like a crib and some baby powder.. but that's another story!.

[Crankin]

Tell us the story...
Did you have the baby really early?