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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
I highly resent anyone that tells my I'm less of a caring mother because I didn't breastfeed
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I agree also. There are a whole lot of people who seem to go around with incredibly oversimplified ideas of what makes or breaks a child's health. It often(though definitely not always) has little to do with the actual child and more to do with a desire to embrace an idealized notion of how things ought to be.
That being said, my daughter was delivered in a hospital with the aid of a midwife and it was fine; there were no doctors pushing for unnecessary procedures. We had no complaints until the regular nursing staff took over. They were just kind of mostly indifferent and it was really a crapshoot after a shift change whether the new nurse would be an interested nurse or a completely dismissive nurse.