12-03-2008, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by thanksgivingmom
Melissa said "nursing is about food primarily"
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Just a quick correction...I said, "for some parents nursing is about food primarily."
I know there's a lot more to it than that, but a number of parents make the decision to breastfeed with other factors than bonding as the main reasons.
For me, the initial reasons were finances, health, and laziness.
The cost of formula just about had me pass out at the grocery store. Breastfeeding is better for baby. And the idea of making, heating bottles at 3 am vs tucking baby in with me for a feed and drifting off to sleep...well, those were my primary reasons for nursing with my first child. Bonding wasn't something that dawned on me at all, until after I was already nursing.
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