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The social issue is that women who breastfeed and work need to stop and pump in the middle of the day. Often this means doing it in a workplace bathroom, either sharing it with passers through or taking up the facilities for 45 minutes. Then they come out and their supervisor or coworkers begrudge the time. If you want more women to feel comfortable with breast feeding, we need to make it socially normal and supported. That and quit staring at their exposed boob or reproaching them for feeding a hungry baby in public.

 

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

 

Maybe Vogue couldn't come up with another bi-sexual model to pose with her.

 

Phonies. All of 'em. That includes their king.

 

All of the above.

In a perfect world, parents wouldn’t need formula at all, because they would be able to follow the common advice to breastfeed exclusively for six months and in tandem with other appropriate foods for at least a year. But breastfeeding cannot—and never has—fully addressed the nutritional needs of every baby. Some newborns latch poorly or have allergies; some mothers find nursing physically or psychologically difficult; some babies are adopted. But one of the biggest obstacles that new American parents encounter when trying to follow breastfeeding advice is man-made: In 2021, less than a quarter of U.S. workers had any access to paid family leave through their employer, and relatively few employers offer other kinds of support for lactating mothers. “The shock of having to go back to work six weeks after delivering a new baby is terribly disruptive to breastfeeding access,” Steven Abrams, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas’s Dell Medical School, told me. The results of these policies show up in predictable ways in statistics about infant nutrition: The babies of richer families are more likely to be breastfed exclusively, and they are breastfed for longer on average.

 

There's one way in which this issue is probably better than it was before the Trumpandemic: the increased prevalence of working at home.

 

Amen. I was allergic to milk as a baby, I'm told, and my parents struggled to find the right mix. Of course, this was in the early 60s when formula was cool.

 

Now, about those golf trips ...

 

My kid was a peanut and lost weight before we left the hospital. I was breastfeeding, but because of her size and the weight loss we had to supplement from the beginning. We were incredibly lucky in that she would take both the nipple and the bottle. She was not fussy. Some babies won't take the nipple. Some will not take the rubber nipple of the bottle. The truth is you never know what it's going to be. I almost quit breastfeeding because it hurt so much the first three to four weeks, and I was on the brink, suddenly it didn't hurt anymore. I only made it 7 months because I was old and my milk went away. And she was still taking bottles. So even if you do breastfeed, doesn't mean you don't need formula. And then you throw in the the shaming that we do when women breastfeed in public and the other aspects that play in and it's just a damn mess.

 

This motivates me to vote....against his party

Trump charges supporters up to $4,995 to attend rallies where he gives 'motivational' speeches: report

 

Only one motivational speaker is worth that kind of money.