Kim wrote:
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Good grief. Take a breath there. I really don't know if you're being gruff
with a reason or if you are somehow insulted by Jim's attempt to caution at
what "experts" may say at any given time.
Jim went and punched my buttons again, he's really good at it, it's all
HIS fault dammit . . . !
You seem way too defensive,
ME? Defensive?! You gotta be kiddding! I've been called a lotta things
over a lot a lot of years by a lot of people but that's a new one.
I think bottle feeding is the preferred mode today,
isn't it?
Definitely not from my vantage point in my particular world. I'm
responding to Kim here too since her comments on the subject are very
similar to yours. Problem is that being "retired" for a couple years
drove me batty so I went out and picked up an industrial machine
design/build project. It's coming together fast at this point and I
don't have much time now to go keyboarding here so I need to keep this
as brief as possible and get back to work.
I have three daughters 41, 35 and 33. All are professionals in various
fields. The eldest is single and in Louisville, no kids, the middle one
is local, has four kids and is a stay-at-home mom. The youngest is also
local, has a 3-year-old daughter and works part time out of her home
office.
The two locals are part of a mob of thirtysomethings, maybe 12 all
told, family, classmates, etc. It's basically a sorority. Almost all of
them are educated and they all live in better-than-average
circumstances here in the suburbs of the northeast corridor. I'm not
certain on this point but I don't know of any who are not in their own
homes. This not Texas or Michigan which brings up the possibility of
some differences in demographics plus I'm not really plugged into what
"average" actually means around here. Very few of these women work full
time. Some peck at part-time jobs. About 2/3 of them are stay-at-home
moms.
Several times a year they all clump together for some birthday or
holiday gathering and I'm usually part of it and is where I make my
"observations". Not to ignore the fact that I also have gobs of
hands-on experience from the "bad old days" Jim cited when the
marketeers supposedly glorified bottle-feeding and sold it. Which I
dispute.
I never counted heads but this mob has a virtual army of under-12 type
kids. Breast feeding amongst this bunch is overwhelmingly prevails.
Once in awhile a bottle has shown up here and there but I don't know if
it was "pumped" or if it was Enfimile . . (sp? Been a LONG time!). So
that's where I'm coming from for whatever it might be worth.
Dee wrote:
"Well when I was planning to have children, I sat down and evaluated
the alternatives based on my lifestyle and the technology available to
me. I ended up working full time and choosing breast feeding for both
children. I didn't care one bit for historical precedence or political
correctness".
Exactly the way I'd expect an engineer to deal with the matter.
Yee-haw!
Kim W5TIT
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