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Too true! I just noticed that your little thingy by the address bar is a nipple. Haha!
Heh Brandy funny I’ve never noticed that until you pointed it out!!
And AMEN to making it with your eyes closed
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Maybe the scientists just need a big glass of water and a comfy chair. Works for me. Or maybe they could try laying down with only loose clothing. That works so well for me I soak the sheets.
Eyes Closed, or eyes open chasing the other 3 children around the supermarket! Heck I can just THINK about it & we’re good to go!
I can feel my milk wanting to let down if I hear a baby cry or come within 5 feet of my friend’s new baby, and I’m not even nursing any more!
with my eyes closed…and sleeping
with baby right there 
Until formula companies can figure out how to make life, they don’t stand a chance. What is not so funny is that all non-breastfeeding families are actually paying the price for all this research, which always shows the same basic fact. The money comes from their pockets, and for most of them, it wasn’t actually their choice.
You know…normally I would tend to agree with this as a crunchy mama, pro breastfeeding woman myself, HOWEVER, I wish it were only that easy for me. As someone who got sick 6 months PP and HAD to stop breastfeeding my exclusively breastfed, never had a bottle in his life, son I WISH they could make formula more like breast milk. Not so I could have chosen the “easy” way out at birth, but so when really crappy things like that happen to people they don’t go through months of guilt, anguish, and pain when they have to make the switch. Even the organic stuff, which we feed, has garbage in it. This cartoon makes me sad.
When I was still breastfeeding my boys, I fed them with my eyes closed and in my sleep too! Three years with each boy. It’s such a simple thing to make and do.
I don’t know why they bother- even if they “get it” they’ll never get all of it! The whole point of a mother’s milk is that it is individually tailored day by day to the baby’s specific needs. They will NEVER get a formula to do that. My boy was nursing *constantly* yesterday, last night he wakes me up about 4am with a fever of 101 – and I said, “oh well of COURSE he wanted lots of mama milk. He knew he wasn’t feeling well and that my milk will make antibodies to help him get better!”
Julie, your reply made me giggle!
MeganK, I am glad they bother. Because of illnesses in me, breastfeeding was cut short with each of my children. I have tried everything to relactate. And it won’t happen. It’s bringing me to tears again now thinking about it. I have no choice but to feed my almost 7 month old son formula. I hate that I have to and feel guilty and terrible about it every day. But I have no choice.
Apryl & Jenny but that was always the POINT of Formula! So that the FEW could still make it! NOT for the companies to profit 6 BILLION worldwide Annually! ( of which 4 BILLION is from the U.S.) True I wish there was a better option for Donor Milk instead (As a newly single Mom it would be GREAT if they paid me to pump by the ounce 1/2 of what they sell formula for!) But what REALLY drives me nuts is people who start OUT with their “choice” who have no IDEA what the choice really is, NOT Mommas who have to turn to it for the real reason it was created in the 1st place!
Still wish there were better milk bank options though!
ABM (Artificial Baby Milk) in most other countries is only available by doctor’s order and only if there is a serious need (usually medical or because another mother cannot donate or wet nurse), not for convenience sake or other selfish reasons. It is not marketed to the public there…but in the “good ol’ USA”…money money money!
Ok, I *have* to say something, the logo on your shirt looks like your “funbag” but with two nipples. I can’t stop laughing or staring at it! I don’t know if you drew it like that on purpose or it is just a coincidence, but it’s super funny. I shared, on FB, the comic of the breastfeeding cover & breast cap and got lashed out at by my sister and mother, but it’s literally one of the funniest things I have ever seen, like an SNL skit or something! I’m so glad I found you, keep up the great work Heather, we all love you!
AnastasiaDenton, I know that. But I am upset by the attitude of “I don’t know why they bother”. Yes, ideally, breastmilk is the best. And they will probably never get it quite right. But in the meantime, doesn’t my child deserve something that is as close as possible? Doesn’t he deserve to have science do some good for him and try to get it as close as they can, so he will have a chance at a healthy life, too?
I know that most mothers can breastfeed. I know this current string of strips is not meant to belittle those of us who CAN’T. I know that the majority of mother who bottle feed do so by choice, not necessity. I know most of you can make it with your eyes closed. I applaud and envy you. But it doesn’t help those of us who can’t to be made to feel like sub-par mothers because of it.
I actually feel embarrassed and ashamed (even more than at home) every time I have to give my son a bottle in public. I feel like everyone is staring at me, judging me. Thinking I must be lazy or selfish or uneducated, because the nipple feeding my son is attached to a bottle instead of my breast. I want to scream at them to stop looking at me. Because this isn’t my choice.
And what makes it even harder is knowing that since this is my last child (again, health problems, my uterus can’t take another pregnancy) I won’t ever get another chance. And of my children, he isn’t the only one that latched on easily. The others, it was a major struggle. But not him. He latched on perfectly within seconds of being born and never had any trouble. I thought that finally, I would be able to feed my child as nature intended, and have that incredible bond for more than just a few (unbearably short) months. But I was wrong.
As someone who is EPing for her baby with special medical needs, and breastfed my older daughter for 2.5 years until she self-weaned, I’m glad that they’re doing research into how to make formula better. Sure, it’ll never be the same, but I spend 4-5 hours a day pumping milk. I’m dedicated to doing it for a year. But that’s 1500 hours or so that I could be spending holding my baby. And what if I can’t maintain my supply from the pump alone? I want there to be better options than there currently are.