Drama Drama Drama
*shakes head* I knew to avoid certain pregnancy related communities from friends' comments. Especially the "au natural" type places like breastfeeding, etc.
But you'd think in a general community linked by baby due date, the "au naturals" could keep their damned "I'M RIGHT AND YOU'RE WRONG" bitchiness to themselves.
And it's not really the gals in general - most of them are opinionated without being pushy. But this one chick stepped on my last nerve and I came *this* close to just unloading on her. I was having a perfectly good discussion with another community member about breastfeeding, pumping, bottlefeeding - and being a WORKING mom with possibly limited choices about being able to doing some combo of the three.
So in comes this WIC counselor boob nazi, correcting me that one of my less important - but still reassuring reasons - for wanting to pump is *wrong* and I shouldn't be spreading misinformation. I did unload a bit, telling her that she couldn't tell me about my situation when she didn't know my medical history nor my children's and to butt the hell out... a little politer than that, but that's the drift of it.
You know, if one of the reasons I want to pump and BOTTLEfeed my baby breastmilk is being able to measure the amount of milk my child is getting in each feeding, then she can just kiss my little Aspergian ass. She's not going to be at my house cleaning up the baby and crying because the baby throws up EVERY SINGLE FEEDING (every 1.5-2 hours mind you) without prejudice to being breastmilk or any of 10 formulas tried, if this baby has the same health issues that J2 had. She won't be the one taking the baby to pediatrician after pediatrician, or neurologist after neurologist, trying to pinpoint WHAT is wrong and get it fixed, or the hours of physical, occupational, and speech therapy finally obtained when someone listened to what we needed.
Bet she'd really piss her pants if she knew we'd given BOTH boys rice cereal at under a month and both were eating small amounts of solids by 3 months - along with their recommended amounts of formula. AT THE DOCTOR's RECOMMENDATION.
Our boys are healthy, smart, and right on track for their age, if not advanced. Our kids, our decisions. Silly witch.
Bah. Hehe... I haven't ranted like that in a while... sorry folks. ;-)
But you'd think in a general community linked by baby due date, the "au naturals" could keep their damned "I'M RIGHT AND YOU'RE WRONG" bitchiness to themselves.
And it's not really the gals in general - most of them are opinionated without being pushy. But this one chick stepped on my last nerve and I came *this* close to just unloading on her. I was having a perfectly good discussion with another community member about breastfeeding, pumping, bottlefeeding - and being a WORKING mom with possibly limited choices about being able to doing some combo of the three.
So in comes this WIC counselor boob nazi, correcting me that one of my less important - but still reassuring reasons - for wanting to pump is *wrong* and I shouldn't be spreading misinformation. I did unload a bit, telling her that she couldn't tell me about my situation when she didn't know my medical history nor my children's and to butt the hell out... a little politer than that, but that's the drift of it.
You know, if one of the reasons I want to pump and BOTTLEfeed my baby breastmilk is being able to measure the amount of milk my child is getting in each feeding, then she can just kiss my little Aspergian ass. She's not going to be at my house cleaning up the baby and crying because the baby throws up EVERY SINGLE FEEDING (every 1.5-2 hours mind you) without prejudice to being breastmilk or any of 10 formulas tried, if this baby has the same health issues that J2 had. She won't be the one taking the baby to pediatrician after pediatrician, or neurologist after neurologist, trying to pinpoint WHAT is wrong and get it fixed, or the hours of physical, occupational, and speech therapy finally obtained when someone listened to what we needed.
Bet she'd really piss her pants if she knew we'd given BOTH boys rice cereal at under a month and both were eating small amounts of solids by 3 months - along with their recommended amounts of formula. AT THE DOCTOR's RECOMMENDATION.
Our boys are healthy, smart, and right on track for their age, if not advanced. Our kids, our decisions. Silly witch.
Bah. Hehe... I haven't ranted like that in a while... sorry folks. ;-)