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Post by Witchie on Aug 3, 2010 10:26:25 GMT -4
I'll give her a pass. She's a new mother & had a wonderful pregnancy & easy breastfeeding experience. But...there are women out there who aren't able to breast feed, whose babies need bottle milk, who have had mastectomies. There are other situations to be considered that she didn't consider. It doesn't make her a horrible person. It makes her uninformed and blessed. She should remember that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2010 10:44:56 GMT -4
She sounds like she lacks information about what pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding might be like for other people and she also sounds like she lacks empathy. Just because people aren't able to do things the way she did them doesn't mean they're not caring and intelligent parents. Basing your recommendations (and judgments) of other people on your own situation without considering that their circumstances might be totally different is stupid, imo. For example, anyone who had a baby that did not ever manage to latch for breastfeeding and struggled through that may not find it as easy as she did to breastfeed for 6 months.
She's a privileged, lucky new mom who has TONS more resources than most women. She also was very lucky to have an easy pregnancy and birth. I guess she just doesn't realize that her own experience may not be because of her superior knowledge, personality and intelligence but just because she was very blessed and lucky. She sounds insufferable.
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Post by margojata on Aug 3, 2010 10:53:05 GMT -4
Some people bottle feed just because they want to. No medical reason, they just want to. Both sides need to be respectful of a mother's choice.
Honey, he's not potty trained, that's having a kid with regular bowel movements. So she holds him over the toilet when he has to go at the same time everyday - big deal. If she held him over the flower garden it wouldn't mean that the kid wants to help the environment by providing the fertilizer.
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Post by FotoStoreSheila on Aug 3, 2010 11:04:33 GMT -4
God, just shut up and look reasonably attractive. You're not paid for your "deep" thoughts. We (the U.S.) don't care about your opinion on anything, Gisele.
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Post by LurkerNan on Aug 3, 2010 11:06:46 GMT -4
She's seems to be feeling all the zealotry you'd expect from a privileged person who thinks their new baby is the center of the universe... doesn't make it any less silly though.
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Post by Yossarian on Aug 3, 2010 18:29:11 GMT -4
I think there's a total disconnect between her being so down on formula as "chemical" but then, on the other hand, having shoved her chest full of saline/silicone funbags. Implants aren't chemical? Or problematic in any way?
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Post by danadel on Aug 3, 2010 19:00:15 GMT -4
Can you breastfeed with implants? I guess you can with the ones under the muscle? (Not sure i know a lot about implants...)
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Post by eveschmeve on Aug 3, 2010 19:21:59 GMT -4
I'll reiterate what I said in the Tom Brady thread- she comes across as smug and judgy.
Plus, she really feeds into this whole warped view that Hollywood/celebrities promote about pregnancy and motherhood. The whole "have a baby, get into bikini shape 6 weeks after giving birth" thing is so destructive and unrealistic.
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Post by Yossarian on Aug 3, 2010 19:24:28 GMT -4
Yes, you can breastfeed with implants and it's not supposed to have any effect on the milk (if your implants were done properly). But, for me, that's not really the issue. Rather, she wants to get all judgey judgey about other women choosing not to nurse because that's an 'unnatural' thing to do. Know what else is unnatural? Hacking your body and shoving foreign implants into it in the name of beauty. I think it really undermines the *all natural* stance she has taken.
ETA: and I bet if you questioned her on this she'd be all "it's my body and I can choose to have surgeries or implants if I want!" Well, right back at you, love. It's my body and I can choose NOT to breastfeed if I want!
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Post by BoroKat on Aug 3, 2010 19:48:14 GMT -4
I find her comments to be enormously sheltered and ignorant. She lives in a world that is so different than 99% of new moms out there.......I would love for her to spout such bullshit to the new mom who is working the night shift at Wal Mart, or the new mom who is a practicing attorney and has to appear in court (that has to be fun while breastfeeding), or the new mom who is a nurse working 12 hour shifts. Or the new mom suffering from PPD, who had a hard delivery, who is trying to take care of a sickly baby, or is also responsible for other children also, and who is trying to do it all without the millions of dollars that Giselle has at her disposal. So until she actually steps outside of her bubble into that real world that she wants to make laws for, then she can keep her silly opinions to herself.
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