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To: LindyBill who wrote (214514)	8/4/2007 6:59:20 PM
From: JDN	Respond to of 794124

We practice nipple diversity!" Ah, for the good ole days of youth!! jdn

To: LindyBill who wrote (214514)	8/4/2007 10:52:02 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794124

DOn't blame me for making this go on 50 posts! I had let go and now I am having to try to find handholds and postclimb back to the rope! Nipple diversity- great line. But those anecdotal emotional experiences are just that.. Both my boys were breastfed AND users of pacifiers. I have friends whose babies wouldn't touch pacifiers, and friends whose babies refused bottles, and friends whose babies once they had the easy suck of a bottle were too lazy to go back to the breast (it isn't just easier for mom, bottles are easier to take from than the breast) and babies who sucked anything that came near their mouths. Babies are as individual in their preferences as any of us. This whole thing is getting grossly exaggerated. The hospital is perfectly willing to use formula on request; it merely is not allowing the mixed and questionable message given by the highly lucrative marketing ploy of free formula to departing mothers. It may turn out to be a nonproductive decision. It may make no difference in the outcome. But it is hardly the stuff of a war against maternal choice, some sort of sociological Bottle Armeggedon. No one is telling parents they can't use formula; they are telling them that the breast is healthier. The message is given by health care professionals, whose job it is to do exactly that- give a baby the best start they can. mothers can walk across the street and buy whatever they choose for their child. I once worked a homeless dinner and watched a mother add half a cup of sugar to a bottle of tea for her baby. If there are a few power-mad individuals who suffer from some misguided opinion of themselves as Mammary Oracles, imposing their superior opinion on someone struggling with a sick child or any other condition that prevents easy breastfeeding, then they need to be smacked, as the father of the sick child in the article apparently did to the nurse. Yay for him. He acted like an adult. Although I imagine the nurse was probably merely telling him a fact- that a baby may decide he likes plastic better than flesh. I would have done what he did. I don't care! Give her a NUKKIE! But turning this into some kind of rights for mothers is very over the top. No rights are infringed. If parents can't handle making this first decision, I feel for them, because parenting only gets tougher and the pressures and choices more numerous.