Of course women who use formula aren’t bad people and no one should shame them. For all of them, I ended up suplementing with formula because, well, I just did–and it was expensive back then. I didn’t last a whole year with all of the six, but I stuffed them full for as long as I could. Nevertheless, I gave it my best shot six times. It made me want to jump out of my own skin and run away. And most of all, I hated having those fierce powerful baby jaws clamped on my person for hours at a time. I was bad at it, I hated sitting down for any reason, I wished they would all get a move on with their lives. Like all reasonable people at this moment, I will go on the record as saying that I hated nursing my children–almost every minute of it. Did you know you can get carple tunnel from breastfeeding? And “ inadequate sleep“–THE HORROR. But that’s not all! One of the cartoons is a big long list of all the diseases you can get from nursing (they don’t use that word, obviously). Oh wait, and here’s another horrible line: “breastfeeding is only free if you think lactating-parents time is worthless.” Some “specialist” did the hard work of figruing out that people have to spend as much time breast-feeding as actually having a full time job! Wow, Vox, you guys are really on the cutting edge of the information highway. ![]() They also claim that mothers who breastfeed for six months or more “experience longer and more severe income loss” than mothers who use formula, like it’s some sort of disease, as bad as having to have a baby in the first place. The faces of all the “birthing parents” look like this one–angry and sad. Through all the cartoons, Vox doesn’t ever once use the word ‘mother.’ Rather, it’s all “birthing” and “breastfeeding parents.” Moreover, they go on and on about how hard and impossible feeding a baby the old fashioned way is, and how you need so much equipment and special classes. Gosh, that is too big and I don’t know how to make it smaller. It’s a series of ugly and bleak cartoony drawings explaining how breastfeeding is actually just as bad as everything else. Like complain about this terrible terrible thing from Vox. Well, I won’t be able to check on this exciting time until this evening because I really do, I promise, have better things to do. Opp, and now there’s Johnny Depp smiling and shaking hands all around. Is this a thing? Modesty back in public affairs? Have I just watched Legally Blond two too many times? Now they are getting all their things out of the capacious hand bags and looking at their phones. Their skirts are all so suprisingly modest. Here I am, struggling into life, and all the lady lawyers have just arrived to begin another day on the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard extravaganza.
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