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Conflict of Interest; the connections between abc news, Dr. Beard and Nestle
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The costs for breastfeeding mothers? :head scratch:
Nursing bras do cost a bit more than non-nursing bras. I also ate more while nursing than when not nursing. And, since I was working when DS was an infant, I needed a breastpump and bottles and such.
I guess lactation consultants can get expensive for some moms, and WIC-eligable moms just might find formula feeding less expensive than the nursing bras and lacation consultants.
But wouldnt it make more sense to have medical insurance cover lactation-related costs rather than promoting formula?
With my first two, I needed a lactation consultant: with the first because I didn’t realize I could nurse lying down (yes, I was naive; it became my position at night!) and developed a crack because of only using two latch-on positions; and with the second, because she was 6 weeks premature and had a tiny little rosebud mouth that could barely fit around my nipple, and again developed a horrid, painful crack. But the consultants were included with the hospital’s birth package. And my Chinese OB had the answer for the engorgement with the second child (again because I had a huge supply from nursing my toddler, and she was tiny).
But seriously: “costs”? How about the costs to correct or “manage” the health problems that are the result of giving babies fake milk and not letting the mom’s body do what it’s designed to do? How to measure the costs of lowered IQ for the baby–how much does that alone cost our country every year? What about more dental care for the baby as the result of an underdeveloped jaw? And how about increased risk of allergies, cancer and obesity-related diseases for both mom and baby?
I hope someday that the result of her purchased “advice” confronts Dr. Beard and she can’t live with herself. I tell new moms all the time about how the potty-training gurus, with the exception of Dr. Linda Sonna, are now or were on the payroll of the diaper companies. I hope others also blow this story into the national conscience.
You don’t have to have a nursing bra to nurse a baby.
And if moms felt more comfortable breastfeeding and more comfortable HELPING each other, we wouldn’t need to pay someone to do it.
So, even taking into account those so-called “costs” that may or may not exist…that would drop the amount of money saved to…just a couple billion instead of a lot of billions? Oh well nevermind, let’s keep formula feeding. Bah.
Well said Samantha.
ok, i am so done with this crap! why even watch TV? how can someone in sit in front of a camera and honestly say the stuff this “doctor” said? it makes me sick.
i figure that this country is not about caring for people, but caring for companies and money.
ugh! i can not take it any more.
heather in maine
Yes, there were expenses incurred for me to go back to work and pump. I bought things such as: a breast pump, storage bags, nursing bras, 2 bottles (yup, that’s all I needed: the storage bags doubled as bottle liners), and…I think that’s it.
So, let’s see…if I bottle fed, I wouldn’t have had to buy the pump ($150). I would have had to buy formula, and that would have cost me more than that a month. I still would have needed bottles, but more of them, and liners because the bottles worked on a liner system. I would have still needed bras, just not nursing bras, which I was able to purchase for $16/ea. at Target.
Sounds to me like a saved money.
…I read that as “billions of doulas.” It certainly read quite differently haha