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| Name: Paula | Date: Feb 9th, 2006 2:29 PM |
| Whatever choice you make in regards to feeding your babies should always be based with the child's best interests in mind. As long as you have thoroughly researched the pros and cons of both formula feeding and breastfeeding, and you take these into consideration with regards to your child's best interests over your own, then you can feel confident that the decision you have made is not a bad one. However seeing that this has been posted on a breastfeeding crowd forum, I feel comfortable in saying that personally, except for medical reasons (like the one you mentioned) I do not see how breastfeeding is in a child's best interest over formula feeding. Although children can be very healthy with formula, it does not provide nearly the same amount of good benefits for the baby as does breastfeeding, especially in the first few weeks. And formula offers practically no benefits for the mother. But breastfeeding aids the mother's health in so many ways from breast cancer reduction, restoring pre pregnancy weight and reproduction health (also sole breastfeeding can aid in natural child spacing), emitting a hormone that promotes maternal attachment, etc etc. Formula offers the mother none of these. ↑ |
| Name: preggy with #2!!! | Date: Feb 11th, 2006 10:31 AM |
| My son is healthy as can be and I know this from all his visits he had for his phisicals he is right on his mark and above for his age every time and they tell me he is the most healthy baby they have seen in a wile to keep doing what ever I am doing. He is almost 2 now. He's never been under a mark yet. ESPECALLY his weight ↑ |
| Name: 3 time nursing mom | Date: Feb 14th, 2006 1:44 AM |
| Hello "preggy", Please keep in mind you did post your question on a breastfeeding forum, so these responses should not surprise you, and please do not take offense to them, for they are not meant to be negative. You stated that you are choosing to do the same for your second in everything that you have done for your first. But is that really wise? Is your situation the same? If you are still on heart meds, then yes it is wise for you to not nurse your second. But if you are not, then everything is not the same. Plus every child is different, so their needs are different. You may find your second child to end up having more ear infections, more food allergies, or may be more colicy (breastfed babies have less instances of all of these). Just because your first is 'healthy as can be' is no guarantee your second will be. You need to do what is best for each individual child. Treating the second just like the first is not taking the second's individuality into account. Indeed "preggy", formula feeding your first while you were on heart meds was the best thing for him. And feeding a baby formula will not necessarily make him unhealthy, though it has for some babies. But you did post your question on a breastfeeding forum, so ofcourse the response you are going to get is that breastmilk is superior to formula. After all even the formula companies admit that. And the ones that did otherwise faced major lawsuits, and lost, for it is a proven fact that formula cannot compete with breastmilk. But this is not to say that a child cannot be healthy on formula. Obviously that is true. It is also true that before formula, babies that lost their mothers were brought up on cow's milk, and many turned out very healthy also. But it does not mean cow's milk is better then breastmilk, or as good. And today's formula is indeed much better then cow's milk. There have been some wonderful improvements to formula over the years, and I am sure that will continue. But it will never be as good as breastmilk. That is only logical. If it were not for your heart meds, and your first had been breastfed, I doubt his doctor would find him in a less healthy condition then he is now. It is a rare child who does not do well on breastmilk. I like what "Paula" posted, so I will repeat it: "whatever choice you make in regards to feeding your babies should always be based with the child's best interests in mind." Obviously in the case of your first, due to your heart meds, breastfeeding was not in your child's best interest, and you made the best choice for your child. So too you need to look at what is in your second child's best interest, taking all factors into consideration. All factors, 'preggy'. Does your child deserve any less then the best? Ultimately, you are the only one who truly knows what is in your baby's best interest, and you can only know after checking out all the factors (like "Paula" posted, all the 'pros and cons') I wish you well, and most wonderful congratulations to your latest addition to your family. Ultimately it is Love that babies need most, breast or formula fed, and I have no doubt that you have a ton of that going around in your family. ↑ |
| Name: preggy with #2!!! | Date: Feb 14th, 2006 7:52 AM |
| I am still on Heart Meds. but they are trying to get me off of them I don't know because me getting pregnant again they might leave me on them still. I don't understand if I was on the meds preggy and when he was born I couldn't brest feed though, why?? ↑ |
