Not all mothers bare milk. Some mothers and/or babies can't nurse for health reasons. Some babies are taken from their mothers for a variety of reasons. Working mothers only get 4-12 weeks paid time off depending on insurance coverage, IF they've been with their company more than 1 year. Only companies with more than 100 employees are mandated to have nursing rooms to pump.
My son was born 10 lbs 8 oz and a very hungry boy. By two weeks old he would have starved if I didn't supplement.
Most mothers do produce milk. Tired of this “not all mothers” bullshit. You’re depriving your baby of much needed acquired immunity and vital hormones and nutrients by NOT breast feeding. It should be patently obvious to any mother that baby formula is a subpar substitution to natural breastfeeding, and it’s damaging your own children.
You can pump in a bathroom. You can pump at home. You can pump anywhere with a door and a lock. Nothing stopping you. It’s not your employers’ job to subsidize your choice to be a working mother. I worked at a pharmaceutical plant where they turned my office into a “mothers room” just so they could take two hours out of the day to pump and talk on the phone. Meaning everyone else had to pick up the slack and work OT.
Quit expecting the government to force employers to plan for your own child’s nutrition.
It's really disappointing that people are using this as an excuse to bash people on their own side. Folks, I've got strong opinions on breastfeeding like everyone else, but hectoring parents like you're a smug Leftist isn't helping anyone through this shortage. Even if mothers want to switch to breastfeeding in response, it's not a process that magically happens overnight. Just let it go. The snark just makes you look like an asshole.
Motherhood (heck, parenthood) is a full time job. Why do women think that they can, let alone should, work while raising kids?
Do you not have a husband to provide for you? That's basically the point of husbands; if your man can't pay for the families expenses he's a shitty man or you're a gold digger.
ImBillCurtis, your misogyny is amazing. I bet women who don't spread their legs for a nice guy like you are all bitches, too.
Why can and should work? Because WWII put American women into the workforce and it was a Pandora's box. Blame disparity of the 1%, elite/not-elite, to maintain a quality of life ever since.
Alternatives to soy, yep, agree. There are some formulas that are not soy-based, I happened to like the Costco brand back then. Unfortunately, our society does not know how to make their own formula from powdered milk anymore, becoming a lost skill with each generation. (If the baby can tolerate it. Homemade does not have the vitamin fortification that produced versions have.)
Pump in the bathroom. It is not a sanitary location. I challenge you to have a fragile immune system and eat your meals in an aerosoled feces environment everyday.
Don't make employers accommodate women. Pump at home. Uhmm, no, if you don't extricate the milk every three to four hours you will not only lose the ability to produce milk, you could also get infections, and it's exceptionally uncomfortable and painful. It's true there are women who abuse it. There are many who don't. When I was pumping, I stayed at work an extra hour everyday to compensate for lost time over four 20-minute pump sessions (did one on lunch). = Less time at home with baby.
Use the tiddies, morons.
Not all mothers bare milk. Some mothers and/or babies can't nurse for health reasons. Some babies are taken from their mothers for a variety of reasons. Working mothers only get 4-12 weeks paid time off depending on insurance coverage, IF they've been with their company more than 1 year. Only companies with more than 100 employees are mandated to have nursing rooms to pump.
My son was born 10 lbs 8 oz and a very hungry boy. By two weeks old he would have starved if I didn't supplement.
Most mothers do produce milk. Tired of this “not all mothers” bullshit. You’re depriving your baby of much needed acquired immunity and vital hormones and nutrients by NOT breast feeding. It should be patently obvious to any mother that baby formula is a subpar substitution to natural breastfeeding, and it’s damaging your own children.
Billions of people just poisoned themselves and their children with those shots, there's no way to reach them, they have already sacrificed them.
You can pump in a bathroom. You can pump at home. You can pump anywhere with a door and a lock. Nothing stopping you. It’s not your employers’ job to subsidize your choice to be a working mother. I worked at a pharmaceutical plant where they turned my office into a “mothers room” just so they could take two hours out of the day to pump and talk on the phone. Meaning everyone else had to pick up the slack and work OT. Quit expecting the government to force employers to plan for your own child’s nutrition.
It's really disappointing that people are using this as an excuse to bash people on their own side. Folks, I've got strong opinions on breastfeeding like everyone else, but hectoring parents like you're a smug Leftist isn't helping anyone through this shortage. Even if mothers want to switch to breastfeeding in response, it's not a process that magically happens overnight. Just let it go. The snark just makes you look like an asshole.
The thing is most can breastfeed. Just don’t let that hospital feed no formula to your newborn. Might not want breast milk after that.
Drink an na beer then
You can use a lot of alternatives before you’d ever have to resort to soy formula.
This here's your problem.
Motherhood (heck, parenthood) is a full time job. Why do women think that they can, let alone should, work while raising kids?
Do you not have a husband to provide for you? That's basically the point of husbands; if your man can't pay for the families expenses he's a shitty man or you're a gold digger.
ImBillCurtis, your misogyny is amazing. I bet women who don't spread their legs for a nice guy like you are all bitches, too.
Why can and should work? Because WWII put American women into the workforce and it was a Pandora's box. Blame disparity of the 1%, elite/not-elite, to maintain a quality of life ever since.
Alternatives to soy, yep, agree. There are some formulas that are not soy-based, I happened to like the Costco brand back then. Unfortunately, our society does not know how to make their own formula from powdered milk anymore, becoming a lost skill with each generation. (If the baby can tolerate it. Homemade does not have the vitamin fortification that produced versions have.)
Pump in the bathroom. It is not a sanitary location. I challenge you to have a fragile immune system and eat your meals in an aerosoled feces environment everyday.
Don't make employers accommodate women. Pump at home. Uhmm, no, if you don't extricate the milk every three to four hours you will not only lose the ability to produce milk, you could also get infections, and it's exceptionally uncomfortable and painful. It's true there are women who abuse it. There are many who don't. When I was pumping, I stayed at work an extra hour everyday to compensate for lost time over four 20-minute pump sessions (did one on lunch). = Less time at home with baby.