Comments | bottlefeeding: another stupid rant

bhaktinbrandi in bottlefeeding

another stupid rant

Feb 10, 2005 14:07

so maybe i'm too emotional from these damn hormones i'm taking to make my ovaries work... but i am so upset! i belong to a cloth diapering community, and somebody posted about a new AP community. now, i am waaaay into attachment parenting. we co-sleep, cloth diaper, absolutely do NOT cry it out, babywear, etc... all but breastfeed. on the user ( Read more... )

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kibbles February 10 2005, 22:05:37 UTC

I AP, I bottlefed.

And I cannot get over the number of AP parents that circumcise. Formula is bad, but cosmetic surgery on infants is GOOD?

Bah.

manic_geisha February 11 2005, 11:20:13 UTC

Ap parents that circumcise???

That is just a contradiction.

In my opinion at least.

kibbles February 11 2005, 12:43:51 UTC

Religious reasons, usually.

manic_geisha February 12 2005, 18:48:02 UTC

That makes a bit more sense. For religous reasons it doesn't seem like you have a choice.

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kibbles February 10 2005, 22:06:50 UTC

Wonder about the babies that are unable to do so?

Oh for fuxsake.

zoe_bat February 10 2005, 22:55:25 UTC

link! link! Link!

I want to see who it is. And sent a pal after them.

sumwonelss February 11 2005, 12:40:11 UTC

*raises hand*
And I get a crap load of crap for it, too. No joke, I've had a handful or so of the more stupid.........er..........rabid boob nazis here say shit like "You're a liar and you let your baby cry it out" etc etc. Just because one formula feeds really means VERY little about how they parent. Then again, I've also had them say I was lying about my son's pallate condition and that I "didn't try hard enough" to pump when my breasts were leaking puss and blood........whatever.

Apparently, no matter if you CD or don't vax or baby wear or co sleep or GD or WHATEVER, it means nothing if you don't breastfeed.

*roll eyes*

corporatebabe February 11 2005, 14:25:51 UTC

Ugh. I'm not an attachment parent (not even sure what that is, really) but personally I don't think I could stand being in a community with people so judgemental and intolerant.

To all LJ parents who are "militant" ANYTHING -- I have only this to say: LIGHTEN UP! Sheesh!

rawness February 14 2005, 03:32:55 UTC

http://www.askdrsears.com/html/10/t130300.asp

There's a link on what AP "is". I don't like to lable it (or myself) though, I've always just parented doing what I felt was right for us -- and for my first that was breastfeeding, using disposibles, co-sleeping, no babywearing whereas this time I'm going to be using cloth (its so much EASIER, i never knew until I started using cloth to potty train my toddler how easy it was lol) and I'm gonna use a sling (less hassle then a stroller or carseat/carrier when you have 2).

I can tell you some things AP is definitely NOT: Using Babywise, a podee/bottle sling/bottle genie or otherwise bottle propping, using CIO, etc. There are actually quite a few AP women in this community that I looooove despite being an awful awful "boob nazi"

corporatebabe February 14 2005, 16:55:32 UTC

Ah - I read it - thanks!