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It would appear that from your "logical" perspective you also feel that made in the factory formula is superior to mother's milk.

Or, it's that these people think it's the right of the mother to decide whether to breastfeed or formula feed. And, superiority isn't the only thing checked when making this decision.

I hear that the hospital also wont let the mother shoot heroin while in the delivery room either. You seem to be making the case for ignorance.
Do you rallly feel that life threatning questions should be decided by those ignorant of the facts?

I'm not sure how you liken formula feeding to an illegal activity

Would you be happier if I said drinking beer?,

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so I don't see how your rebuttal has anything to do with my statement. Are you taking the position that formula-feeding instead of breastfeeding is life-threatening?

That question was answered quite clearly in post 9...Perhaps you should research a bit before you get both feet in your mouth.

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So you also think think mother's milk is inferior to formula.
It would also appear that you also wish to conflate the facts with "fear mongering" in an effort bolster your position.
Do you know what else that those "commie hospitals" force you to do?

So you think it's ok to be dishonest.

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But while in the hospital you will follow protocol prescribed by the hospital. If you have a problem with that then have your kid at home and deliver it yourself.

But... It's not hospital protocol.

If it is not hospital protocol what are you sniviling about.

It is a government dictate.

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What part of "freedom of choice" are you not following?

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The polio outbreak is the basis for your claim that current formula feeding is life-threatening?!? Damn. I wish I had known that before switching the boys to formula. That sure would have made my wife's difficulties with breastfeeding insignificant. Odd how my Aunt who had been a maternity nurse for 30 years (at the time) didn't have any issues when we switched my son to formula, and didn't have any issues when the twins were started on formula right off the bat.

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What part of "freedom of choice" are you not following?

The same freedom of choice you have to drive 70 mph in an school zone full of kids.
We live in a society and we make laws to accomodate ourselves to that reallity.
Do you feel that the govt should make no laws?

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The polio outbreak is the basis for your claim that current formula feeding is life-threatening?!? Damn. I wish I had known that before switching the boys to formula. That sure would have made my wife's difficulties with breastfeeding insignificant. Odd how my Aunt who had been a maternity nurse for 30 years (at the time) didn't have any issues when we switched my son to formula, and didn't have any issues when the twins were started on formula right off the bat.

How about you go back and read post 9 again and see if you can seperate the "historial note" from the facts presented.
Do you think it is the function of the hospital to promote the healthiest choices or to be the pimp for corporate amerika?
Look into who the fuck the washington times is and their goal. Your personal freedom to endanger your child is not being challanged in your home just in hospitals that you could sue.

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How about you go back and read post 9 again and see if you can seperate the "historial note" from the facts presented.
Do you think it is the function of the hospital to promote the healthiest choices or to be the pimp for corporate amerika?
Look into who the fuck the washington times is and their goal. Your personal freedom to endanger your child is not being challanged in your home just in hospitals that you could sue.

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What part of "freedom of choice" are you not following?

The same freedom of choice you have to drive 70 mph in an school zone full of kids.
We live in a society and we make laws to accomodate ourselves to that reallity.
Do you feel that the govt should make no laws?

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The polio outbreak is the basis for your claim that current formula feeding is life-threatening?!? Damn. I wish I had known that before switching the boys to formula. That sure would have made my wife's difficulties with breastfeeding insignificant. Odd how my Aunt who had been a maternity nurse for 30 years (at the time) didn't have any issues when we switched my son to formula, and didn't have any issues when the twins were started on formula right off the bat.

How about you go back and read post 9 again and see if you can seperate the "historial note" from the facts presented.
Do you think it is the function of the hospital to promote the healthiest choices or to be the pimp for corporate amerika?
Look into who the fuck the washington times is and their goal. Your personal freedom to endanger your child is not being challanged in your home just in hospitals that you could sue.

If it is the choice of the mother to formula feed, the hospital has not authority to change that. The infant is under the guardianship of the parent(s). The hospital is being used for a service. The child can not make the decision, so the guardian has the authority.

I would balk if the hospital forced new mothers to formulafeed, too. It's up to the mother, not the hospital.

If a person is drinking in a hospital, or driving 70 in a school zone, there is a risk of danger to others that the person making the decision doesn't have authority over. Breast milk v. formula isn't that great of a risk of danger to others, either. The infant lying next to the formulafed infant isn't in danger of death simply by the one kid getting formula.

Yes, a hospital can be sued of something goes wrong. I have no issue with that. But, if the thing that went wrong isn't the fault of the hospital, then, the lawsuit goes where?

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Don't you think Tommy, that treating formula like vicodin or oxy is beyond a little extreme? Sure it still remains ultimately the Mother's choice, but rather you are asking a hospital to take a legal product, shove it behind lock and key, and develop a bureaucratic procedure to access it. I thought the goal was keep healthcare cost manageable while provided a quality level of care. This creates cost, interferes with a woman's choices regarding child care and, above all, is waste of time and resources as well as a distraction

Bloom is acting like a narcissistic tyrant toddler. It is a pattern of behavior with him not an isolated incident.

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Don't you think Tommy, that treating formula like vicodin or oxy is beyond a little extreme? Sure it still remains ultimately the Mother's choice, but rather you are asking a hospital to take a legal product, shove it behind lock and key, and develop a bureaucratic procedure to access it. I thought the goal was keep healthcare cost manageable while provided a quality level of care. This creates cost, interferes with a woman's choices regarding child care and, above all, is waste of time and resources as well as a distraction
Bloom is acting like a narcissistic tyrant toddler. It is a pattern of behavior with him not an isolated incident.

There are many things that are locked up that have nothing to do with medications. I have been in hospitals where oxygen tubing was under lock and key. I dont recall a newborn nursery that didnt have its formula under key or restricted access due to theft.
In this, I only see a push to offer breast feeding as a viable option. True, the push is a bit strong, but that push is on the staff and not the mothers.

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It's on the mother's too. And, making it more difficult for a mother to formula feed isn't necessarily prevention of formula feeding, but it does give the look of it. When my ex gave birth to our boys, we did have a lactation consultant come in both times and give us information, asked us questions, and was available to answer our questions. With the second pregnancy, it was planned to just start with formula. The staff asked. The lactation consultant asked. We told both and there wasn't any issue at all.

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I agree it likely is a hassle for the staff. But it also takes away from the patient/caregiver relationship. A nurse that constantly pushing breastfeeding on a new mother who has chosen to breastfeed, for me, would make me not want that nurse in my room, and would also make anything she said to me, suspect. Since she is pushing the breastfeeding agenda on me, what other agendas might she be pushing?

I don't have issues with formula being under lock and key. I do have an issue with a new mother needing a doctor to approve her decision.

This is a really hot button issue for me. I remember stories of women who were bullied by LaLeche people to keep trying, keep trying, when breastfeeding was not going as planned. They would regularly make women feel guilty about not breastfeeding. I remember more than one case where the woman kept trying (because of the idiots guilt tripping her), and her baby suffered malnutrition because the woman's milk hadn't come in.

I understand the party line that breastfeeding is best, however, a woman can't leave the hospital without having a bowel movement (at least when my son was born), so why can't there be some kind of test to determine if her breasts are producing milk? Yes, I know that she might not be fully producing by the time she leaves the hospital, but the baby goes for a well check up within a week, why not test again?

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So is the speed limit in a school zone. What is your point?

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How about you go back and read post 9 again and see if you can seperate the "historial note" from the facts presented.
Do you think it is the function of the hospital to promote the healthiest choices or to be the pimp for corporate amerika?
Look into who the fuck the washington times is and their goal. Your personal freedom to endanger your child is not being challanged in your home just in hospitals that you could sue.

If you really want to go there, it's also speculated that the polio epidemic was so severe in part thanks to better hygiene and sanitation practices, even among breastfed children. Better sanitation leads to less contamination, which leads to mothers without antibodies, and therefore- children at risk.

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That's not the point. Why create the statutory hassle? Whether bloomy dictates or not, it is the accepted medical opinion that breast feeding is best. I believe it is endorsed by the AMA, the pediatricians group and by OBs. They are going to recommend that a women breast-feeds every time.

The hassel is because bloomy wants to force women to do it, it is his intent. He had to fall short of that because he knew that would have been immediately slapped down. So, he is doing the next best thing to forcing it. He is going to make it a difficult as possible. He has already dictated that shops can't even say they carry tobacco products anymore, and have to hide them from view.....How many poor immigrant owned bodega that depend on the revenue is he fucking over with that one? What's next, telling safeway they have to hide their formula? What Bull Shit.

It is totalitarian pettiness, plain and simple. If he cared, maybe he would crack open his wallet and buy breast pumps for women who can't afford them (good ones are uber expensive). He could also put in feeding stations around the city so women have some privacy from gawkers and don't have to sit in the bathroom. It is better to make it easier to breast feed than make it harder to formula feed.