Reasons I Didn't Formula Feed

Marilyn

Everywhere I go, formula feeding moms tell my why they didn't breastfeed. I never thougth about breastfeeding that way, but maybe I should. Here are the reasons I didn't formula feed (since i feel sooo guilty for not doing it.):

• I didnt want my husband to help take care of the baby and we all know that the only thing husbands know how to do is feed the baby a bottle.
   
• I was just too lazy to get up in the middle of the night to make bottles.
   
• I hate doing laundry and I've been told that formula stains so I don't want the extra work.
   
• Noone ever told me about the advantages of formula. All the doctors and nurses pushed breastfeeding on me and never ever offered my baby a bottle.
  
• I'm uneducated and since breastfeeding makes you smarter I figured my kids could use all the help they could get.
   
• Since everyone knows breastfeeding women leak all the time, I figured I would have the advantage at wet t-shirt contests. I go without a bra and they don't even have to spray me; I'm already wet.
   
• A boob-job is too expensive and I wanted bigger boobs.
   
• I hate going to the doctor, I've heard formula feeders just love going, but I don't and if breastfeeding keeps them out of the doctors office that's the choice for me.
   
• I just wanted to stay home and sit on the computer all day. If I had chosen formula I would have had to go to work because everyone knows you can't work and breastfeed, of course, and everyone knows breastpumps don't work and are just there for looks.
   
• I'm poor and I can't afford formula so my child is being denied all its wonders (stomachache, ear infections, nasty spitup, nastier poopies, colic) because I'm poor.
   
• My mother didn't breastfeed and of course I have to be different just to spite her.
   
• I just couldn't formula feed, I tried and tried to put that bottle in the babies mouth but he just didnt want it.
   
• I didnt have enough milk, there wasn't enough in the bottle so I had to brestfeed or the baby would have starved.
   
• The bottle didnt make enough milk, I shook it and turned it upside down and stared at it but it never made any milk at all.
   
• Its just too embarrasing to feed my baby a bottle in public, people will stare and make rude comments.

These are my reasons for not formula feeding if you disagree with them, then I will get all my breastfeeding buddies to tell you how wrong you are.

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