Yes. Babies that are breastfed are healthier.
I would never want to marry and reproduce with a woman that would intentionally and willingly withhold her breast milk from her child.
I thought my comment made it clear that it applies to women that don't breastfeed by choice.
If she wants to, but can't for medical reasons, then it's fine.
If she can, but doesn't want to, then there is a problem.
But there ARE reasons, and those reasons are often both invisible and very personal. When you see a woman who doesn't breastfeed, you don't know the story there. There are actually more conditions that make breastfeeding inadvisable than you probably realise. There aren't very many that prevent breastfeeding themselves, but there are quite a few that can necessitate treatment that makes breastfeeding impossible, inadvisable, or of unknown safety, including insomnia, lupus, NMS (neurally mediated syncope), POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, certain seizure disorders, and chronic migraines.
All of the conditions I named are invisible and potentially very serious if untreated. Sure, most women don't have those conditions, but most women in the US and the UK also breastfeed for at least some of the time, by a pretty huge margin.*
You say "There are VERY VERY FEW reasons why a woman can't breastfeed", but you could say that about a wide variety of medically necessary practices. There are very, very few reasons to be on chemotherapy, have a mastectomy, or get one of your limbs amputated, but I doubt that you'd argue that those things are wrong. There are (by most people's reckoning, it seems) very few reasons for a woman in her early 20s to use a wheelchair, but that doesn't make it any easier to walk.
Breastfeeding is, of course, enormously beneficial, but sometimes there are costs that outweigh the benefits. It's a damn shame, but that's the world we live in.
*See http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/data/reportcard.htm for US statistics and http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/21/breastfeeding-rate-rise-uk-mothers for UK statistics.
Is it normal I detest moms who don't breastfeed?
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I do the same thing!! There are VERY VERY FEW reasons y a woman can't breastfeed. Be a woman and do what's best for ur child!! BREASTFEED!!!!
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Yes. Babies that are breastfed are healthier.
I would never want to marry and reproduce with a woman that would intentionally and willingly withhold her breast milk from her child.
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What if the alternative is months of pain?
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I thought my comment made it clear that it applies to women that don't breastfeed by choice.
If she wants to, but can't for medical reasons, then it's fine.
If she can, but doesn't want to, then there is a problem.
I know it's manners to wait untill I am asked, but you certainly would not want to marry me as I have no intention of ever breast feeding. x
Thank you!! That's a good man!
But there ARE reasons, and those reasons are often both invisible and very personal. When you see a woman who doesn't breastfeed, you don't know the story there. There are actually more conditions that make breastfeeding inadvisable than you probably realise. There aren't very many that prevent breastfeeding themselves, but there are quite a few that can necessitate treatment that makes breastfeeding impossible, inadvisable, or of unknown safety, including insomnia, lupus, NMS (neurally mediated syncope), POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, certain seizure disorders, and chronic migraines.
All of the conditions I named are invisible and potentially very serious if untreated. Sure, most women don't have those conditions, but most women in the US and the UK also breastfeed for at least some of the time, by a pretty huge margin.*
You say "There are VERY VERY FEW reasons why a woman can't breastfeed", but you could say that about a wide variety of medically necessary practices. There are very, very few reasons to be on chemotherapy, have a mastectomy, or get one of your limbs amputated, but I doubt that you'd argue that those things are wrong. There are (by most people's reckoning, it seems) very few reasons for a woman in her early 20s to use a wheelchair, but that doesn't make it any easier to walk.
Breastfeeding is, of course, enormously beneficial, but sometimes there are costs that outweigh the benefits. It's a damn shame, but that's the world we live in.
*See http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/data/reportcard.htm for US statistics and http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/21/breastfeeding-rate-rise-uk-mothers for UK statistics.