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What to Expect When Your Employee’s Expecting
Asia Myers was counting on the paycheck she earned at her job at a nursing home to buy supplies for the baby girl she was expecting.
She was shocked, however, when her employer, the Hope Healthcare Center, forced her to go out on unpaid leave after her doctor advised her not to lift as a…
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Do not breastfeed. Formula safer. Less breast Cancer.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Stahp.
+Kori Young Um … most of the analysis is either inconclusive or indicates that breastfeeding reduces the chance of breast cancer (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/264796.php and http://ww5.komen.org/BreastCancer/NotBreastfeeding.html and http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/04/29/breastfeeding-does-not-cause-cancer-quite-the-opposite/ for example).
Science says whatever you want it to; big bucks…will change in a few years…70s was out…80s in….90s…out…00s….in. don't be a dumb uneducated fucking man. Out permanently.
Yes, there's HUGE bucks in promoting breastfeeding, which costs nothing. By contrast, there's no money at all to be made by promoting commercial milk formula.
Um…mixing different genetics while breastfeeding affects you. When you are a mixed race family like most Americans are.
+Kori Young, that is some of the most ignorant shit that I have heard in a long while…
Wow +Dave Hill has become so popular on G+ he found the trolls. That is sadly more impressive than this wonderful article.
+Jon Weber Oh, I've attracted them before, but I always appreciate the, um, honor.
+Kori Young You are correct that there have been variations in the "preferences" between breast feeding and formula feeding over the years (though the cycles have been longer than that). Issues involved there have been:
1. Breastfeeding is not convenient or, in many cases, simply not possible or sufficient. Some women must formula feed.
2. Formula was seen to have benefits in both convenience and in some nutritional values in some cases, esp. where the mother was under nutritional stress herself.
3. Formula is a nice cash cow (so to speak) for the companies that make it, so they're always willing to push for women to do so, too..
4. In the last 2-3 decades, nutritional and immune system advantages (not to mention psychological considerations) of breastfeeding have come to be recognized.
So bottle feeding isn't bad, it's just not quite as good. In some cases it's necessary, but the expert recommendation (which has been this case for 2-3 decades, in fact) is to breastfeed when possible.
(The decision to breastfeed is, of course, that of the mother.)
I've not heard of any issues with mixed-race breastfeeding and "genetics" — do you have some references?
I'd argue that there are times when the push for formula use is bad… In developing countries, it can be devastating: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott
+Brint Kriebel Yeah, I'm well aware of those. In cases where there are nutritional challenges to mothers, bottle feeding may be the only alternative, but there are a lot of ways that, in general, formula is only appropriate in safe, secure societies.
Medical student on OB/Gyn currently. Unless you have HIV or another infection like that (see: not mastitis), you should breastfeed.
Multiple reasons to do so.
+Keyan Mobli I've known a number of women for whom it was not a viable (or complete) solution. Which is unfortunate, but okay — formula is not as good, but it's not horrifyingly bad as well, and women for whom breastfeeding does not work out should not feel shamed as inadequate mothers.
+Dave Hill oh absolutely. I'm talking about in those that are able.
Yea wife and I attended a breastfeeding class not too long ago and some women definitely produce varying amounts. These seem to be the exception not the rule. In the class we learned some women have a hard time getting babies to latch and give up too soon rather than work hard at it. Which is understandable, having a newborn is an incredible amount of work. Getting a baby to latch that struggles has got to take a lot of energy when not much energy is available.
As a soon to be Dad this is where I figure I come in. Help, love, and support to keep the baby and mother going.
+Jon Weber in my hospital we give all mothers, especially first time mothers, a lactation consult.
+Keyan Mobli, that is awesome of you! At our hospital they have lactation consultants on call to help out. Then from the free class we learned about La Leche League and other resources.