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July 13th 05, 07:00 PM
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Kim wrote:
wrote in message oups.com... wrote: 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 w3rv |
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