Boob Juice or Man Made Juice.....

it is really nobodies business but your own. Sorry gals..I am being quite harsh this morning but their are some subject that just tick me off. I recently had a good friend have a baby and she was telling me that she is having a hard time with the whole breastfeeding process and was thinking to switching over to formula but she was getting "bullied" {and yes I consider it a form of bullying} when people in general make you feel like total shit when you decide to stop breast feeding and switch over to formula. This is a personal decision that is made by the mommy..... yes the mommy. You know the one who has had to have her body hijacked by an alien/vampire for 9 months in some cases 10. The mommy is the one who has tossed her cookies for the last 6 plus months, the hormones changes alone have sent her to mars and back.  Who has to give up all things good - wine, sushi, did I mention wine and cute shoes....You know mommy.

This is not the decision of the mailman, the snobby mommy's who turn up their noses at formula, the lady behind you at the market and anyone who decides to give their 2 cents about breast feeding -
that means you Ms.Giselle Bunchen we know that your pregnancy was sooo easy and you did karate until your bundle dropped and you lost the baby weight with magical charms from fairies that live in your  backyard....yada yada yada. Shhhhhh..... just stand there and look pretty when dumb shit like the below comes out of your mouth.


In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK — which hits newsstands today — Gisele gushes about her superior parenting skills since giving birth to son Benjamin, now 7 months old. The 30-year-old Gisele preaches: “Some people here think they don’t have to breastfeed, and I think, ‘Are you going to give chemical food to your child, when they are so little?’ There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.”

Why does this bug me so much because I was treated like criminal at the hospital and made to feel like a horrible mother because I decided to stop breast feeding after 3 months. LDG came into the world one months early, I had to have an emergency c section and when she came out of mama she was not in the best shape...literally she was like play doh...she had gotten stuck in a awkward position when turning so she was pretty messed up. After going through all of that fun stuff...my milk was not coming in as it was supposed to, so that was a pain in the ass all in itself. I had to be molested on a daily basis by the breast pump/nurses so the milk would come in...To this day I cannot look at a breast pump without wanting to kick the shit out of it. Also LDG just was not latching on properly so I had to feed her with a little hose that was connected to the nipple....it was a mess. Where was that oh so special bonding moment were they handed you the baby she magically latched on and you were off on this cloud of goofiness.  I had heard about this moment from other mommy's,  was it all BS and was it all a lie??? Because honey I was not feeling it. I did not look forward to feeding my baby and I felt like the worst mother in the world. So what do we do to make mommy feel super awesome *thumbs up sign* the hospital sends the lactation nurse from hell to my house{who in another life probably ran a woman's prison}to make us feel even shittier than we did before. Oh joy!

After many tears, frustrating nights/day with my buddy Pumpy the breast pump, and many fbombs* later hubby and I decided that is was time to go the formula route and we have never looked back. My LDG was on Similac formula from 3 to 12 months and she super bright, healthy and my little speed demon.

This is my opinion and I do not have what is better facts and numbers of boob juice vs man made juice.
I just wanted to vent and too let new mommy's out there that they should not be made to feel like bad moms because they decide breastfeeding is not for them. Every one's body/self is different that is what makes the world such a beautiful place. Do you and do what makes you feel good!

Cheers