BF Nazis - please shut up and get a life. One that doesn’t revolve around your tits.

People like her should open their eyes and see what’s around them instead of siting some irrelevant and dubious info they have seen in some propaganda website like “formula is the 4th best food”!! What are the 2nd and 3rd best foods according to your sources, Nemo?!! LOL

The apparent fact for everyone who is willing to see is that even though breast milk has been shown to be better than formula but by no means formula has been proven to be dangerous or risky by any means! Formula is actually is an unbelievable blessing of the modern age for which we should all be thankful. No one has ever died or even got demonstrably harmed because his or her mother fed him formula! (don’t site for me now the cases when the parents mixed the powder with contaminated water. That was because of the water and not because of the formula if your logical faculties still work well enough to grasp that obvious point, Nemo!!)

But I have heard of many babies who died because of malnutrition due to their mother’s inadequate breast milk or simply because their mother died or got very ill and couldn’t be with them and nurse them. In old times, prior to the advent of this modern life-saver i.e. formula milk this scenario was very common for many unfortunate babies. My own grandmother’s niece almost died because of it. She was born in a remote village in rural Iran about 80 or so years ago and her mother (my grandmother’s sister) died of excessive bleeding during labor(also one of the “wonderful” side-effects of the so-called “non-medical” “all natural” home birth which is now so romanticized amongst some green moms!) It was winter and very cold in their mountainous region and there were no lactating women in that area so one of the men of the household had to risk his life and go on horseback to a neighboring village and find some lactating woman who could feed the baby before she starves to death. Luckily he succeeded. But two people (the man and the lactating woman from the neighboring village) had to risk their lives and it was simply luck that they didn’t get there too late. Many kids starved since their mother never had enough milk or were severely malnourished and easily got sick and perished. Some poor mothers had to resort to animal milk to try to give their babies this one last chance at getting enough nutrition and many times the babies’ sensitive stomach could not handle it and they also had to perish. It is a myth that all women just successfully nursed their babies in old times prior to formula and that the so-called family structure was helping them and solving all the lactating and non-lactating problems that now we face today! In 3rd world countries such as Iran (where I come from) till this days in rural areas where women don’t have access to formula sometimes babies die because their mothers don’t have enough milk to answer for all their nutritional needs.
How ever bottle-fed babies time and time again show that they are fine and they thrive and gain healthy wait and grow to be normal adults just like their breast-fed peers. I am not denying that if a mother is healthy and has enough milk and has the opportunity to be near her baby all the time it is better to breast-feed, but the difference is really not that big to justify such venomous attacks and guilt-trips that bottle-feeding mother are being subjected to! And in many cases they are even saving their babies life by bottle feeding them since it simply save them from starvation! So I think the breast feeding fanatics better find another hill to die on figuratively speaking. This issue doesn’t deserve the amount of energy and zeal that they are spending on and there are more life-threatening and earth-shaking issues in the word that we should focus on. To put it simply “Get a life girls!!”

“If you are ALL so proud and so secure in your decision to give your children the fourth best option then why the HELL are you rationalizing it to some stranger on the net.”

The reason women feel compelled to respond to posts like yours is to provide a balance to the supreme ignorance of breastfeeding matters that people such as yourself display. The mere fact that you believe that all women can breastfeed, if only they would try hard enough, tells me just how ignorant you are. Those women aren’t trying to educate YOU - your mind is closed tighter than a fish’s bum after all - they’re posting for the benefit of other women who may be experiencing very real issues with breastfeeding.

You really are quite full of yourself, arent you.