Through education from the pro breast milk
movement and encouragement and assistance from caring health professionals, young
mothers have been increasingly choosing to breastfeed their infants.
But like many movements that
eventually become overly ambitious and
zealous, the breastfeeding proponents are on the verge of undoing all the progress they
have done in educating mothers towards this more natural choice. Indeed, women are now complaining about how insistent the hospital staff has become in their attempts
to convince them to breastfeed even when they choose not to or can't for various reasons. Some brief research on the internet yielded the following results on mothers exasperated
over the pressure they feel to breastfeed their infants :
- They can
be quite bullying. You don't have to do anything you don't want to but it's
hard to say no.''
- Everytime a midwife came to talk to me they always made me feel like if I gave
up I would be a failure.
- I couldn’t feed
Nicholas, but I’d been told I had to stay in hospital until I succeeded...
In the end, after four days, I discharged myself. I fled. I felt as if I was escaping from prison.
In the end, after four days, I discharged myself. I fled. I felt as if I was escaping from prison.
- I have
had two other children, didn't breastfeed them, for many reasons, and I don't
even want to bother with it this time...so LEAVE ME ALONE! When I
explained this several times, each time she responded "Well, that's
fine...but...." But what....?? What don't you
understand? I kind of hate that lady now!
- I seriously
believe that is why so many Moms have a hard time Nursing nowadays... because
their (sic) is so much damn pressure and stress behind it now. You are looked down
upon if you do not.
Not surprising that Nanny
Bloomberg, the New York mayor who thinks that no measure is too pushy or too
tyrannical to get people to conform to his ideal of a ''better person'', couldn't resist to set yet another rule for his constituents. '' New mothers who
want formula won’t be denied it, but hospitals will keep infant formula in
out-of-the-way secure storerooms or in locked boxes like those used to dispense
and track medications. With each bottle
a mother requests and receives, she’ll also get a talking-to. Staffers will
explain why she should offer the breast instead.'' an article in the NY Post
reports. As well, as of September 3, the city will keep tabs on the
number of bottles that participating hospitals stock and use. One
hospital spokesperson explains: “The key
to getting more moms to breast-feed is making the formula less accessible. This
way, the RN has to sign out the formula like any other medication. The nurse’s
aide can’t just go grab another bottle.”
If this is
not the nanny state running amok, nothing is. Much like the various movements that go overboard
when they become too confident of their successes, this bully mayor has truly overstayed his welcome.
God help New Yorkers between now and his final stepping down from office.
To quote one hilarious comment from the NY
Times article linked below: ''Will large breasted women only be permitted to dispense milk in 16oz
increments? '' referring of course to Bloomberg's plan
to ban the sale of larger than 16 oz drinks.
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