tiffjoy
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2010
I'm glad to know you're not judgmental, but as far as bf'ing moms not being judgmental...maybe moms aren't, but nurses certainy can be!! With my second child, I immediately asked for a bottle because I knew I did not want to BF. They wanted me to SIGN something saying I'd been made aware of the beneftits of breastfeeding. It was so ridiculous. I told them to stick their "waiver" up theirs and nursed until I went home. I mean really??? Having a grown woman, already with a child, to sign something?!? With my other three children (at different hospitals), no one ever requested such a thing.
Maybe it's cause I live in California, but I had to sign a bunch of waivers! So, to me, it doesn't seem that odd.
Like I said, there's more than enough judgment to go all around for everyone, it seems. I didn't want my daughter taken to the nursery, and I got judged plenty- I was told that I needed to get some rest while I could, told that she'd be fine, told that I really should let them take her. I just politely refused. I've been judged for nursing in public on one hand, and on the other, judged when she was given a bottle of my pumped milk by me (lady assumed it was formula, and that I didn't nurse- not that it would have mattered if it was formula!). I've been judged for cosleeping, judged for refusing to have her get the flu vaccine, judged for not letting her CIO, judged for extended nursing.
It seems like people's favorite thing to do is assume they know everything about parenting (even if they aren't even parents!) and if you don't do it their way, you are wrong, and they simply must inform you of that fact.