Sorry, but I cannot share your soapbox. I have no political agenda, I am a modern, hard working executive that cannot support views such as yours just in the name of women's rights. Although I appreciate your views, these are the result of years of marketing and brainwashing by formula companies that have convinced many women that fast/convinience foods come first before healthy choices. You know that there is no substitute for the natural, real thing. Physiology design is not a "trend", it is a fact. Mammary glands are there for a reason. They are used for breastfeeding when needed. Modern choices do not make trendy anything designed by physiology that has remained the same for thousands of years.
The original intent in the early 1800s, when swiss chemist Nestle invented formula was to help mothers who were NOT able to feed premature babies. This original purpose was noble and truly a medical necessity but when BIG money saw the opportunity it became a very profitable business and convinced women it was OK to do it as a replacement of a natural biological process.
We are among a handfull of societies in the world that follows "trends" while the rest of the world including many European countries are going back to basics and since 2004 these efforts have become the norm and embraced by many countries in Europe. http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_projects/2002/promotion/fp_promotion_2002_frep_18_en.pdf
You can get into slogans such as "Breast is not necessarily BEST" but regardless of what these slogans promote, the fact is natural is better than anything that comes in a can with shelf life. You personal experience with your last child was due to medical reasons. But do not put down the natural act of breasfeeding by overemphasizing "guilt" If you stay to the facts (and having medical reasons for not breastfeeding is a medical fact) then why feel guilty about the only choice you had to provide nutrition to your baby? You did what you needed to do and canned formula was the best option in this case!
The issue is with women who having the ability to breastfeed, deny the baby this motherly source of nutrients. That in my book is a moral issue based solely in a selfish decision. That is not what motherhood is about. Sorry, but cannot get on board with your thinking on this one.
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Sorry, but I cannot share your soapbox. I have no political agenda, I am a modern, hard working executive that cannot support views such as yours just in the name of women's rights. Although I appreciate your views, these are the result of years of marketing and brainwashing by formula companies that have convinced many women that fast/convinience foods come first before healthy choices. You know that there is no substitute for the natural, real thing. Physiology design is not a "trend", it is a fact. Mammary glands are there for a reason. They are used for breastfeeding when needed. Modern choices do not make trendy anything designed by physiology that has remained the same for thousands of years.
The original intent in the early 1800s, when swiss chemist Nestle invented formula was to help mothers who were NOT able to feed premature babies. This original purpose was noble and truly a medical necessity but when BIG money saw the opportunity it became a very profitable business and convinced women it was OK to do it as a replacement of a natural biological process.
We are among a handfull of societies in the world that follows "trends" while the rest of the world including many European countries are going back to basics and since 2004 these efforts have become the norm and embraced by many countries in Europe. http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_projects/2002/promotion/fp_promotion_2002_frep_18_en.pdf
You can get into slogans such as "Breast is not necessarily BEST" but regardless of what these slogans promote, the fact is natural is better than anything that comes in a can with shelf life. You personal experience with your last child was due to medical reasons. But do not put down the natural act of breasfeeding by overemphasizing "guilt" If you stay to the facts (and having medical reasons for not breastfeeding is a medical fact) then why feel guilty about the only choice you had to provide nutrition to your baby? You did what you needed to do and canned formula was the best option in this case!
The issue is with women who having the ability to breastfeed, deny the baby this motherly source of nutrients. That in my book is a moral issue based solely in a selfish decision. That is not what motherhood is about. Sorry, but cannot get on board with your thinking on this one.
January 3, 2009 - 11:09pmThis Comment
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