Nurse, and feminism joined?

"If we entrust the manufacturers of the baby formula more, as we our own ability, to nourish our babies, does, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking, thereß this baby formula is so good as breast milk believes that is nature well thirty years of technology to three million years, s-Evolution. Unzählige women regained trust in her/its/their bodies on working her/its/their children as a nurse, even if certainly she/it first weren\'t, that they could do it. It is an action of female power, and I keep it as feminism in mind in his/its purest form."
--, Christine Northrup M.D.

Somebody sent me this, you quote in a myspace-Bulletin today... I is sure, that I am gotten some interesting comments,..., but I am curious, you are honest, not touchy or defensive please.

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Koori * * I agrees... I believes, that the connection incorrectly often is drawn. I actually never saw myself as a feminist until I started physically to nurse and to explore everything in order to do with it, mentally, emotional, intellectual benefits für both mommy as well as baby, politically, morally, religious, social effects and the history,... I always thought, that feminist worked, both didn\'t have any children or was interested more than family in her/its/their works, that are organized,... funny, most of my friends, whom I would call also feminists, and little of them let worthwhile jobs, nursed almost everything of the mothers, the most stretched out!

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I think of feminism as it, proud of it, to be a woman, from all astonishing matters, whom we can create to be, proud of it, to be capable, to bear a child and to nourish it.

I believe that formula and formula companies are specifically misogynistic. You/they undermine Bed with her/its/their exact hourürfnis women, they use hospitals, doctors and the media with misinformation.
Formula was meant in order to be used in extraordinary circumstances instead, the norm became.

Can I not tell myself to a woman introduces "hello, do you see this? It came, from a cow, us, goes again to process it in a factory, fügen chemicals to it, and it is better than what, you do as a woman of course." However is this, women said exactly which formula companies and the medical equipment for years. That was to theück, as formula was evaporated milk and corn syrup. The say of women, thereß the milk, that she/it made natural, was, cooked more badly in a laboratory than something. Lächerlich.

Now, they placed, this "breast is the best on the can, because they have to it, demands legally from law.

It is no coincidence to me, that to nurse installments, started to arise, as the feminist interior movement was begun. It was about it, our K,örper, over the being for this proud of her/it/them, what they were intended to do to take back: carry and nourish children.

I am glad, there is sure formula for mommies, who didn\'t have any other possibilities.

IchIch, that they continue, despises women coupons literature in the hospital, free bottles, free formula to undermine. "Only one bottle" supplements ", in order to cover the baby away."
I, that they turned the feminist interior argument about it, hate particularly, is head and said that formula is a lifestyle election." Whoever pays for this election? Mother and child payment für her/its/their exact health. 40 percent 2 voices saves to it! ! RSS

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through only somebody, that I would not call myself a feminist at all, but I am a gigantic supporter of the breast feeding.

I fall into the traditional female role of cooking and clean, and all types of mothering. However, I don\'t understand, why doesn\'t nurse somebody würde. 20 percent 1 voices

from KooriGir.... Hmmm, interestingly. I think es\'s möglich, that feminists are easily more likely to nurse, as other women in western company, but this could be connected with other matters, like education on the questions of womens and so on

I believe, the quotation actually means, that something is, that nursing is exact empowering, and an acknowledgment and a validation are that women have value, and are more well capable to only nourish her/its/their children with her/its/their own bodies as formula can.

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Feminist, who nurses, because it is natural, not because of my feminism,

also cooks, cleans, a sahm is

through Belinda milfinda actually is I in a family, that accuses me, to be been antiquated for nursing, stretched me, remaining at home, while my husband is away, uses material diapers and a drug-outside birth has. Meanwhile, many women, whom I describe as a feminist, make würde, the same matters. Nursing gave me the type of confidence, that otherwise nothing könnte. It muß somehow with the through those, that nurse problems early and learn, to assume the matters, works, this I me cannot change, does, like marathon feedings! I am correct this quotation vollständig to. If formula companies advertise, they say women "Her/its/their body is insufficient." You won\'t communicate me this!

Don\'t listen upplrjerks. Her/its/their name says everything, she/it, that looks for a fight here, \'s. You/they really doesn\'t weiß better any.

Ebmid2, you feel like this point of view, is. . ., from lack at a better word, antiquated? I place auf\'t meant to attack,; I associates only this reasoning Block-erm with the shoulderüdende career women the 80s and early 90s. If it is möglich, that the feminism ideals developed, is no more relevant with it?

I feel like feminists of the generation past, was encouraged to use formula and to have careers. I think this heute\'s-Feministinnen können chooses whether they work at home or stays want. I feel places like ich\'t muß only work to show everyone, that I am relieved and modern. I remain at home, because frees me I and modern fühle. Spürt this brand?

I never have thought to be an actual feminist through alikat, but I feel that I am a strong woman. And a strong woman is I fühlte, that I wanted to do what was the best for my child, even if it was difficult. And nursing was difficult für me! I had a bad handle, jumped and entlüftete nipples and sometimes gnashed with my teeth, as he/it snapped on it. This lasted because of the bad rip virtually 12 weeks long on the left side. But... with the help of a good pump and any willpower, thereMade of ß I it through it and now nurses him/it comfortably. It is the best Gefühl in the world, that is capable to endure his/its life with the milk, that I produce, I! And I am correct in agreement... it brings me to extremely feeling woman like they.

I don\'t believe that feminism should be estimated butch as men\'s haters or being, or BRA, that burns. Or women, that itself to out bemühen, men do. We place auf\'t needs to out, you do Männer! I believe, thereß it in it should be the best, most awesome woman to be been, that you can be on which means, that you can. Through working heavily, the being a good mommy and the laughter over your mistakes.... through loving, if you and enough woman\'s being can in order to go away, if necessary. Through the credit of respect für our bodies and minds and spirits. Through the lowermostützen from each other, if we need it, and assuming of support, if we need, this also. I am glad, thereß I me, to nurse my son, decided, and I look more female for doing it.

from E.B., I never recognized the power and the strength, that women have, until I had my own son. I kämpfte, to have a natural birth. And I kämpfte, to nurse my son.

I think to be a quite loyal feminist.

And I am, WOMAN hears me, ROAR comes in sense and proves to me once, that I can do what mothers before me, did for all times. It gives me confidence and Selbst-assuredness. It is ICH\'m certainly für each different one(s). But my son\'s nursing and the being even a mother brought me to it, itself Stärker and, to feel more, female, but not in the frilly froo froo wimpy stereotypical way. ICH\'m a Kämpfer, fight boots, that carry, rasierte-geführte WOMAN, and I am not willing to foresee me now. I trust my premonitions, I trust my Körper, and I trust my baby. I place auf\'t needs a formula company, a doctor or a friend for even me, as everything is to be done to be told.

Big question, I want to look all answers at these!

from BEATY, that nursing is big, I believe, his/its easy one, less chaoses and I are a lazy goddess at hearts.

I nurse my 2 children and many would criticize me on it, how long made i, (2yrs), but this loved i you cuddle time for itself up and my children also did as they were ready that they grew out only from it. I wußte always that would become i quiet, except if i medically couldn\'t..... could be no arsed in order to be more honestly i in order to get out warm bed one bottle and the feed could start, much would turn around i sooner, gets out you em and falls asleep you back!!

I believe that it is women they a matter sacred, and if my blood sees bring i women advertisement porn canals with breast milk, that streams him/it everywhere, to boiling. It is not anything, which should be dirtied by porn in it anyway.

I my everything, which we will know women, whom breast fed, exactly what happen, if sex, if it is thrown into the mixture of a nursing mommy and him/it, erotic and sensual is, but is between you and your partner and not something for tacky cable channel, about on, to snap to it.

However breast, that feeds the purest more human story.

from dreadful Threes dear I Dr. Northrup!
The first wave of the feminism almost cost our society to nourish his/its most basic knowledge like our babies right. Women gave her/its/their power of the motherhood and nursing of payment für a fatter paycheck and a rip in the glass blanket gladly on.
i estimates the supports, that first wave feminism, they are caused, but the trade offs is extreme.
Anyway.... yes, this second wave of the feminism is not about "me, you like a man haggle in order to compete in his/its world." We must give too lactate up no more our female power to a formula company, headed through it.... men.
We got a matter, where we can do our own research, you recognize that thousand of Millenia of the evolution kept this very necessary biological ability and are not forced by a company, the brands, that mothers feel, as if they must do a "election", as is her/its/their babies to be nourished. 20 percent 1 voices

through sunny112.... men dominate the world, but there are two matters, that they can never do,: carries you and lactate from. Das\'s why she/it on women of eagernessüchtig is, they want to take part in the action "in that she/it shares "the responsibility or" one bottle helps the baby "through giving", and they want to reduce the importance to nurse through the say, that this mother\'s milk is no big deal, you are able to tell the formula by the look of us, clever men did in our laboratories, it is like good as well or better still. But it isn\'t it gives hundred of components in breastmilk, the vollst,has not yet been understood ändig and that can simply not be copied in a laboratory, antibodies led in answer to which malady, that you, to become at a given moment, are, not to mention the emotional heat and the binding the baby and mother enjoys, in your surroundings exposed both exactly to your own baby. Mhe/it envy änner, therefore they take the trouble to minimize it, and unfortunately many women fell also in this trap. I attune Northrup vollst Dr.ändig to.

from Rosie, I am a proud breast feeding mommy

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Breast feeding is a personal election. Sometimes it only doenst-Arbeit, my son rejected after 2 months of breast milk and was on formula from the time on. I am no feminist and fühle, that many of her/its/their ideas are from way of the tables. WennWenn is, comes to the Fütterung and pulling up of your children, I see really not how activists should have a right to bring somebody to it, itself guilty about the elections, that they do, to feel. Everyone has an opinion, and thats punishes, but this opinion over company, to push, is wrong.

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This part is my favorite, "thirty years of technology is to three million years of the evolution" of nature thinks.
If we didn\'t develop, we still would hammer stones in order to do fires together.
I think nursing, it is definitely connected to feminism. You/they können sees that here people on from a quantity of the answers provides, and the quotation says it directly in there.
Nursing is no action of female power", as well like men, that gets up, to be peed, no action of male power is. We können him/it cause, that we boobs and men\'s Don have, does \'t.

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Breast feeding could be an action of female power, but this doesn\'t mean that it has everything to do with feminism. Feminism is about women, who take power, that was in the habit she/it didn\'t of having. But women always have the power to nurse, therefore feminism doesn, \'t is valid dafür. Exclude maybe, thereß feminists think that women should be capable for breast feed in public.

Indeed I would say that feminism is about a woman, who places for her proper will over the healthy being of her/its/their family, to the largest part. And, to use baby formula, can zweckmäßiger as breast feeding is. Therefore ich\'d says, thereß, to use baby formula sooner than breast feeding, is more in accordance with feminism. 20 percent 1 voices