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Interesting double standard

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BabiesEverywhere · 16/06/2008 20:24

I was posting earlier on this thread

I posted to correct a breastfeeding myth. i.e. Maternal stress levels does not effect breast milk production or breast milk quality.

Several posters object to my post and I am told I am "insisting breastfeeding is best for the baby and putting even more pressure on the op." Nope, I did not say or suggest anything of the kind

Yet several posters are directly putting pressure on the OP mother of a exclusively breastfed baby. Telling her that she...

"you are too stressed out by the abuse to produce enough milk"

and

"I know it is VERY, very hard to consider formula, not least because you'll be giving in to this "man", but you must consider it.... there is a strong chance your BM isn't containing the things it needs for your baby."

Yet these comments are supposedly supporting the OP

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whomovedmychocolate · 16/06/2008 20:29

Deep breath dear. You celebrated the double standard by posting the same thread twice as well

I don't necessarily agree with you but that's what a discussion board is about. There's room for more than one opinion here.

BabiesEverywhere · 16/06/2008 20:48

But that is the point. The assumption was pushing a bottle of formula as a good thing was 'helpful' but me correcting a single fact was asumpted to be 'pushing the breastfeeding agenda and making the OP feel guilty'

Kind of funny I posted this twice mind

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