In Adam’s supposed attempt to ruin mom shaming, he was in truth aimed at ruining breastfeeding.
Why not Adam Ruins Everything: Formula Marketing, or Adam Ruins Everything: Mommy Wars?
The episode Adam Ruins Everything: Why Formula Isn’t Poison (which originally aired on July 9th but you can watch it here) plays much like a formula advertisement. It reminded me of the infamous Similac one that aimed to dupe us into receiving it as some cute public service announcement when really, illusions dissolved, it was just a smartly manipulative attempt to sell formula.
A few questions raised by this episode: is it really necessary to degrade breastfeeding in order to prove formula isn’t poison? It’s true that formula isn’t poison, but can’t this fact stand on its own merit without comparing against breast milk?
Overall, Adam’s episode focuses less about how formula isn’t poison and more about how breastfeeding really isn’t all that great, apparently. The information here is incomplete at best, biased and inaccurate at worst.
Curious Things I Noticed:
1). About the demographics…
I’ll start with this: the inventor of infant formula is called “Albert Einstein.”
The ‘lactivist’ is a ditzy white woman who reacts to supposed ‘formula facts’ like a childish brat. She says stupid, entitled things that almost make us forget breastfeeding rates are much higher among educated populations.
The anti-public breastfeeding woman is black. I suspect the person in charge of casting was aware that black women’s breastfeeding rates are much lower than that of other races due to special social and healthcare barriers, and used this to their advantage in extending stereotypes.
The ‘good guy’ is the formula-pusher (Patty, whom Adam calls a “primary source”). Her attitude is pedantic and her manner of speech is denigrating. She’s what I view as a ‘pusher’ because if you know anything about how formula marketing works, you’d agree she’s basically a formula company personified.
Certain groups of parents aren’t even mentioned: those who exclusively pump breast milk, those who use formula and breast milk together, and adoptive and same-sex parents who use donor milk or breastfeed.
Adam frames this as strictly an issue (rather, fight) between exclusive breastfeeders and exclusive formula feeders. If only things were that simple!
Read: Help With Mixed Feedings
2). About public breastfeeding…
Agree with me or not, but I think formula companies just love publicly ‘defending’ public breastfeeding because it keeps the flames fanned on its controversy and in the meantime they reap the applause as a ‘mommy wars’ referee.
Formula-sponsored messages remind us how the breastfeeding lifestyle comes with public opposition and ridicule. Certain bottles are marketed with the suggestion “for when you need to feed baby on the go.” Nursing covers are normalized in their imagery (remember that Similac ad?). This turns the infant feeding decision into a fear-based one instead of a health-based one. It makes perfect sense when their business success depends on sales, and public acceptance is what sells.
In this episode, the lactivist is reprimanded by Patty for her negativity, but first Patty matter-of-factly states how breastfeeding is wonderful, natural, and great — therefore, we assume by implication, an unfair target of public shaming. By throwing in this nugget about breastfeeding being natural and great, it appears she’s earned the right to claim a ‘balanced’ argument. However, those of us with finer-tuned observation skills aren’t buying it.
This is the only mention of the wide range of criticism experienced by breastfeeders. Nothing about shaming for breastfeeding beyond infancy, for sharing personal breastfeeding photos on social media, for proudly celebrating breastfeeding milestones, for openly sharing what they’ve learned to help other moms…
And most interesting is no mention of The Booby Traps. The formula-feeding mother explains how a nurse recommended a top-off and from then on she had problems, but no mention of the often causal relationship between supplementing and difficulties with milk production.
For an episode that’s supposed to be about formula, a whole lot was said about breastfeeding… and by the end of the video we still haven’t learned anything useful about infant feeding!
3). About good guy vs. bad guy…
We’re expected to believe Patty is neutral given her claim to have breastfed one of her children — once, twice, for five years, with supplements? These details aren’t offered, but we all know one breastfeeding journey is unique relative to another and her experiences can neither be the standard against which to measure breastfeeding overall, nor the eraser of some unclaimed bias.
Courtney Jung is shown as an ‘expert’ with professional-ish soundbites. Curiously, she’s a political scientist — NOT a lactation or infant feeding expert of any kind.
The lactivist is not granted balanced quotes with relevant science of her own. She’s depicted as a sanctimonious airhead who pulls all her information from “mommy blogs” and supported with trendy buzzwords like oxytocin. The lactivist’s script is full of ridiculous, whiny things no one would say (“I hear there’s autism in formula” / “Breastfeeding makes your baby love you more”).
4). About those sources…
Adam’s list of ‘sources’ don’t include any of the science or research that shows the benefits of nursing or how breast milk is vastly different from formula.
Upon a little digging I see Jung wrote a book called “Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy.” Doesn’t exactly strike me as unbiased. This is when we wonder exactly how much ‘opinion as fact’ we’re meant to swallow.
Sure, citing secondary source ‘mommy blogs’ (like my own) wouldn’t lend much credibility to any argument requiring factual input from experts. I would just expect any cited research to make sense, not be misleading, and removed from conflict of interest.
5). About equating formula with breast milk…
Sorry, but they’re not the same. Not even close. They’re equal in that they’re both food designed to nourish infants, but when we draw a wider net around the details the synonymous nature quickly disappates.
The best Jung comes up with? The benefits of breastfeeding over formula are “inconclusive.” Which certainly doesn’t mean they’ve been officially debunked. This would’ve been a perfect opportunity to discuss what’s actually in formula and to explain how these ingredients are a good alternative to keep some babies healthy and fed, yet there’s no mention of what’s in formula, except “chemicals” which we’re told are in everything and just fine.
“Literally everything is made of chemicals.” First, that’s not how it works. Second, can we say straw man?
In the video, we’re told the composition of formula is based on science. No, actually it’s based on the composition of breast milk, and science proves the processed ingredients still pale in comparison to the living liquid that is breast milk.
Read: What’s in Breast Milk? / Cow-Made, Man-Made, or Mother-Made?
6). About the history of risks…
The mini history lesson on infant feeding paints breastfeeding as inconvenient and barbaric, while formula is presented as, according to the video’s caption and Patty, “a literal life-saver.” True, formula has saved lives. You know what else is a literal life-saver? Breast milk! (Just ask the parents of premature babies afflicted with necrotizing enterocolitis).
No mention of the deaths of formula-fed babies; only a brush-off comment that completely sidesteps the concern of formula’s safety and health risks.
“Babies grew up malnourished or died if their moms couldn’t breastfeed.”
True, this has happened, but babies have also grown up malnourished or died on a formula diet.
In developing nations, formula use has high rates of morbidity; it was estimated that one million babies died before their first birthdays per year in developing countries as a result of formula use. A recent study published in the medical journal The Lancet found that increased rates of breastfeeding could save 820,000 lives per year.
Consider that many families in poverty-stricken areas cannot afford formula so they must dilute it to make it last; sterile water for mixing and cleaning is scarce; children may have other medical problems worsened by not being breastfed; mothers may not have easy access to purchasing formula when needed; mothers may have trouble understanding formula labels and mixing instructions (Nestle’s international labels are written in English).
When prepared correctly in a safe, clean environment and given by caregivers who are educated in infant bottle-feeding, commercial formula is largely safe, nutritious, and (as originally intended) it can be a life-saving food. Thank goodness it exists because it can certainly help fix what’s broken! However, it also has the power to break what was never broken by preventing mothers from breastfeeding or interfering with the process.
THAT is why many mothers want to talk openly about infant feeding.
7). About the OTHER feeding options…
Before formula, apparently “there weren’t any other good options” to feed infants, according to Patty. Color me confused, but why no mention of donor milk and wet nursing as the other perfectly normal and healthy alternatives?
Commercial formula is NOT the only other option to nursing. In the past, babies did not starve if their mothers couldn’t breastfeed them. However, they may have starved if: their mothers couldn’t breastfeed them, and no one else was available to nurse the baby, the baby was also too young to consume solid foods, and/or had an underlying medical condition that would’ve contributed to failure to thrive even if formula had existed.
If formula is “a modern miracle,” we can call breast milk a timeless miracle, right?
Read: 9 Arguments Against Wet Nursing That Do Nothing But Confuse Everyone
8). About the scare tactics…
- “Breastfeeding takes 35 hours a week… forget about getting anything else done.”
Yes, it’s a demanding job to care for a baby. Breastfeeding is not just food, though; it is also for comforting, putting a baby to sleep, bonding, and more. If you take into account the number of hours per week a formula-fed baby is drinking from a bottle, plus the amount of time it takes to prepare the bottles, plus the number of hours baby spends with a nipple-replacement (pacifier/dummy, thumb, etc), being rocked to sleep, being cuddled and so on, I’m pretty sure the minutes would level up to the time-suck of breastfeeding.
Also, I’ll take a good excuse to not have to get anything else done! The pressure on modern mothers to do it all is overwhelming as is.
- “Fifteen percent of moms can’t breastfeed.”
This ‘fact’ is misleading. Historically, it hasn’t been that 15% of mothers couldn’t breastfeed, so why can’t 15% of moms breastfeed today?
Discussion of the Booby Traps, social and health influences upon breastfeeding, normalization of supplementation, applying formula-feeding methodology to breastfeeding, inadequate maternity leave, widely under-diagnosed postpartum mood disorders, and breastfeeding mismanagement are all left out.
So we assume all of these moms physically cannot produce milk, but the truth is only 2% of women were not physically built to produce enough milk for their babies.
- “Formula allows women to leave the house and join the work force…”
A need or desire to leave the house to go to work or anywhere does not necessarily preclude a mother from breastfeeding.
What about the many working moms who not only manage to exclusively breastfeed, but reach their nursing duration goals too? What about women like me who manage to leave the house every single day (without nurslings in tow) and have never needed to supplement or give bottles?
Formula may help some women who wish to achieve these things, but it certainly isn’t the answer for all.
What we should be doing is pushing for companies to give families a work leave that’s worth a damn. We should be pushing for acceptance of continued, biologically normal feeding upon return to work (regular pumping breaks, access to donor milk through insurance if needed, in-house childcares).
We should be pushing for society to accommodate MOTHERS and their BABIES instead of making us feel like we should be thanking big business for coming up with a decent yet still second-rate compromise.
- “Oxytocin is a hormone that gets released when you do things like hug and cuddle…That same hormone is also released when you do things like fire a gun or watch porn.”
So, we’re demonizing bonding hormones now? Is that really necessary? Couldn’t Adam have instead taken the positive route by saying formula feeding dyads can experience oxytocin bonding in their own ways too?
This is the same education given to breastfeeding dyads when dads insist on “their turn” to feed the baby: dads of breastfed babies can get intense oxytocin bonding by bathing, holding, babywearing, sleeping and playing with their babies — not only by participating in milk-feeding.
Oxytocin release is a crucial part of attachment for ALL babies, however it happens, and we need to keep talking about it.
Read: Why Isn’t Every Baby Breastfed?
9). About the origins of shame…
Thanks for trying Adam, but we don’t need you to save us (mothers who feed babies, that is) from judgment. Knowledge will soften the sharp panic of modern new motherhood, not continued censorship of up-to-date information to prevent hurt feelings.
The thing is, the episode is presented as anti-shaming, but there are so many examples of shaming originating from their ‘education’ attempts. Informing expecting mothers about breastfeeding isn’t ‘mommy policing,’ it’s mommy supporting.
Honestly, I’m sure Adam’s intentions were well-meaning. I just think there’s a lot of misunderstanding when it comes to the mucky, complicated, emotional world of filling the bellies of young humans.
It isn’t anyone’s place to judge others, but it is a natural, common, and purposeful human reaction. People have been judging each other’s parenting choices since forever, and while criticism is occasionally hurtful, it does serve by causing us to question old knowledge and shed unavailing routines. Our judgments can be informative and help us grow.
No one can make another person feel shame or guilt. Unsolicited advice can be good or bad. I think criticism (the expression of judgment) is the real problem, not judgment itself.
Example of judging: Thinking to yourself it was an awful idea for your friend to give her 5-month-old ice cream.
Criticizing: Telling your friend she made an awful decision by giving her 5-month-old ice cream.
Informing: Telling your friend about healthy infant food choices and recommendations and where to find more resources on the topic.
Empowerment is born from giving confidence to mothers without undermining their peers. There are much better ways to liberate formula-feeding mothers from judgment than by minimizing the impact of breastfeeding.
Something to think about: Every time a formula-feeding mother is faced with an article about the properties in breast milk that could never be replicated in formula, a breastfeeding mother is scolded for nursing her two-year-old because “enough is enough already!”
We’re all under pressure here. Really. It’s not just some moms sweating bullets over growing our kids on some kind of food, it’s all of us. And it doesn’t end when they’re done with milk! Then we have to worry about solid food, balanced meals, competing with cartoon characters on colorful boxes…
Read: Making a Baby-Friendly Culture Amid Formula Marketing
10) About this popular response to the video…
“I say if you want to breastfeed, go for it! If you want to formula feed, go for it!”
Except it’s not that simple. You can’t just tell a new mother “go ahead and breastfeed” (or “go ahead and mix up some formula”) and expect it to work out like magic. She needs education, support, and resources to make it happen.
Formula feeding is a learned practice too (hygiene safety is crucial to understand, and guidance is needed to pick the right formula for a child without marketing influence).
Telling a new mother “go for it, we support you” when it’s time for her to start breastfeeding is NOT helpful. If you truly support a mother’s choice, you’ll share information about HOW to feed her infant. Otherwise, the message between the lines is you don’t think it’s important whether she fails.
Your approval of the whole spectrum of infant feeding choices is appreciated, but new moms need far more than a thumbs up and a few words of agreement.
11). About censorship of the full picture…
Here’s how censoring discussions of biological norms does a huge disservice to families:
- They fall for the manipulation tactics of businesses.
- They’re set up for failure before they’ve begun, or when they’re most vulnerable to struggles.
- It normalizes feeding problems instead of solving or preventing them.
- It normalizes barriers to breastfeeding.
- It restricts development of increasingly safer and better feeding alternatives by claiming modern formula is basically good enough, healthy enough, not poison! Nothing will ever be good enough for our babies, and we should be demanding continually improved products instead of letting formula companies convince us the current stock is already perfect.
- It further promotes the #FedIsBest campaign, which undermines the importance of nursing or breast milk-feeding. What I think: Fed is the bare minimum, because every child has the basic human right to be fed. Formula-fed is a fine alternative, because every mother has the right to make decisions about her own body and breastfeeding isn’t best for a small number of babies. Breastfeeding is the standard, because it’s the biological norm intended and perfectly suited for our species.
Go ahead, leave messages calling me a Nursing Nazi, Breastapo, Sanctimommy — I’ve heard it all. Rest assured, those of you inclined to do so: you won’t be censored.
In conclusion: No, formula isn’t poison. Just leave breastfeeding out of it.
Mama's Milk, No Chaser 
What a bunch of crap…
You didn’t have to read it.
How do you know that this is the blog the show was criticizing so much? There are many “mommy blogs” (such a demeaning term, call them “Mothers’ support blogs” or “Parenting Blogs), some of which are far, far more anti-formula than this one. Interesting that the show didn’t bother to criticize the pro-formula “mommy blogs,” isn’t it?
“In developing nations, formula use has high rates of morbidity; it was estimated that one million babies died before their first birthdays per year in developing countries as a result of formula use. A recent study published in the medical journal The Lancet found that increased rates of breastfeeding could save 820,000 lives per year.”
They specifically talked about this in the show.
You are the blog that the show was criticizing so much. It is so ironic, actually.
This information is available widely. The study itself and WHO recommendations didn’t originate on my blog.
But they didn’t present it in such an opiniated manner. You’ve missed the whole point of the video and written this long diatribe about how this video wrongs your world view.
You are not a good source for mothering because you use anecdotal evidence. Your blog is the very reason why these types of videos exist.
Shame on you.
So, what exactly is the point of the video then?
I like how you broke down your opinions about the video with factual evidence. I admit to finding the video a little humorous, but at the same time, I also felt like it was peddling formula feeding. I was fortunate enough to have been able to breastfeed my little ones for a little over the first year of their lives before they quit on me. I would have gladly breastfed longer. I can’t say that I felt they were bashing breastfeeding so much has promoting formula feeding. That said, it is nice that sites like yours are available for those who need it. I wish I’d had something like this when I was breastfeeding! Eleven, eight, and even five years ago, I spent time breastfeeding in bathroom stalls or in the back seat of my car because of the stigma of public breastfeeding (and yes, I did try pumping, but my milk dried up when I pumped, so I had to stop doing that). Even now, although I cherish the memories of breastfeeding, I still remember how embarrassing it was to sit on the floor of a public restroom and try to balance my infant on my knees while feeding.
Thank you so much for addressing this video. I am outraged when people downplay breastfeeding or breastmilk. I have a daughter born two and a half months early and I had to pump on a crazy schedule to have food for her. I was a new mom, and I suffered from ppd while she was in the NICU. I pumped for nearly two months every 2-3 hours so my daughter could have the best nourishment. If formula was the same I would not go through all of that work. I also deal with DMER and my daughter has a lip tie which causes painful nursing sessions. I worked through all of that to give my baby my milk. 7 months strong now. I am not against formula, but Jesus, they’re not equal!
You’re doing a great job and it sounds like you’ve got a good support system which is so important! I hope things get a little easier so you don’t have to work too hard to be able to provide your milk to her. What you’re doing is very valuable. ❤
It amazes me how defensive formula feeders are. I appreciate you taking the time to write out this blog, and you’ve earned a new follower! Preach it, girl!
-Another Milky Mama
Thank you!
100% agree. The whole video made me feel very targeted just because I breastfeed. I’ve encouraged friends to fight through the difficult times of nursing, be it mastitis, going back to work, or feeding their babies in public. I have gone through all the same hurdles.
Adam was so focused on making breastfeeding look like a pain and not worth the trouble, that it really made me lose respect for the guy and no longer trust his videos. I used to really enjoy his stuff. It’s ok to have trouble with nursing. It doesn’t just come naturally, you have to learn what to do. You have to know what to expect and how to deal with situations as they arise.
My best friend had to formula feed her baby. I never gave her a hard time about it, and she never made me feel guilty for nursing my children. Yes, formula is an invaluable invention that saves lives. But don’t tear down breast milk to build formula up.
Thank you for this. I had very conflicting thoughts when I first saw this video. Partially because, as much as those two mom characters were clearly pointed stereotypes, I’ve also met both of those people and heard those exact things, almost verbatim, so… I agree that the implications behind the racial and socioeconomic casting were… not well done.
I think you bring in good data here and help significantly to round out what is absolutely a complex and challenging topic, far more so than what people often appear to see just on the surface. The history of formula marketing, policies about “health and hygiene” that affected and still affect low-income parents to this day, myths and misconceptions, all of that, it’s very complicated. Wet-nursing not being mentioned (or milk sharing, or goat milk, or any number of actual historical facts) is problematic and there is a lot in his video that is misleading. I agree with your facts here, and I think you make some great points.
That said… I did everything “right” in preparation for nursing. I read and studied, I informed myself, I went to class and I talked to moms who had BF successfully. I had a midwife-supported birth in a facility that was pro-breastfeeding. Then, after my son was born, I went through 13 months of sheer fucking hell, trying to meet the implied judgements and demands of the Breast-is-Best community. Yes, they are right–you are right! We are mammals, and breast is optimal! It is the best. But when I had mastitis literally every other month for a year, when I nursed through the anguish and bit my tongue until I bled to keep from screaming and waking my son up as he nursed… was I bonding then? When I sobbed and cried in the shower, when I went to urgent care time and again, when two pediatricians said there wasn’t anything they could recommend, because they were there to treat the baby, not me… when my female primary care physician said there really wasn’t anything she could do, because that was a pediatrics thing… when three different trained LCs told me it was just the position I was holding him in, I needed to relax, take some herbs, Breast is Best! My entire left breast would swell, get red and streaky, nursing felt like thousands of shards of glass were cutting me from the inside. Pain beyond childbirth, way beyond. And I had a precipitous, unmedicated birth of an 11 pound baby, and I would’ve gladly done that once a week rather than go through that. For me, formula in those last few months was a lifesaver. There are whole weeks of time in that first year I will never remember and time I will never get back! There are photos I look at and don’t remember. It broke my heart, and I felt worthless, broken, and weak. I couldn’t do this ‘normal, natural, best’ thing that would give my child a healthy future. I had ruined it from day one.
So when resources fail people, when they fail mothers like me, where else can I go? Maybe formula is not as good, but neither is the utter anguish that was breastfeeding for me. I tortured myself, and for what? That wasn’t bonding. That wasn’t optimal nutrition. Not for me, not for him. I am heartbroken over what happened to us. How little information we were given, when I asked and begged for help. I called the LLL. I went to nursing mother meet-ups and just sat and cried when nobody could help, nobody would even acknowledge me. I was the broken one, the one who couldn’t do it; perhaps they feared it was contagious, my failure. And if I hadn’t been insane I would’ve finished that first month and said, you know what? This isn’t working. I want to be healthy, and not sobbing, and I want to look at my child’s hungry open mouth and not want to claw my skin off. The first bottle of formula I gave him was the sweetest, most peaceful, most wonderful feeling in the world… which I still felt bad for choosing, because Breast is Best!!!
There is a huge, monumental lack of research, medical training and information available on the science of human lactation. More’s been done on erectile disfunction, last time I checked. That’s something we need to fix, for sure. And me, as a mom with access to insurance and health care, with money to go out-of-pocket and see LCs, if I can’t do it?? Maybe it’s not intended to be judgemental; maybe it truly is intended to be informative, but tell me, what about people for whom breast just isn’t best? Is there a way to fight for better research, better support, better education, and above all better community for moms, without making them feel like absolute garbage? I don’t mean to rant to you; this is an issue that, like my boobs, is close to my heart, ha. If we do want better resources and support, how do we get them? And when people don’t get them, for whatever reason, how do we as advocates learn to back off and be a little bit kinder, so parents can make the best choices available to them and focus, not on others’ opinions and judgements, but on the needs and care of their own precious children? Is there a way forward?
I relate to your story so much, I was lucky enough to have our NICU pediatrician, an ER doctor, my mother, my husband and my friends all tell me to stop. I stopped around 6 weeks and I can’t imagine where I would be mentally if I hadn’t. I’m so sad that you had to go through this and I know how overwhelming the guilt of it not working can be. Just the fact that you cared this much shows that you are the best mom for your baby and they are so so lucky. Thanks for sharing
I’m so utterly sorry this was your reality. I’ve had mastitis a handful of times as well as thrush and know those invisible glass shards all too well. I’m amazed you put up with it as long as you did though! I don’t believe mothers need to be martyrs for their children — in fact, I think there are many benefits when a mother refuses to be one. I’m glad you discovered what worked better for you and now have a more peaceful feeding relationship. To answer your question, I don’t know what is the best way to educate people about breastfeeding problems and solutions. Our supporters and caregivers have SO much to learn still. I do think by continuing to normalize breastfeeding and encouraging mothers to stick with it (through issues that can be painlessly resolved, unlike your case in which mental health was at stake) they can learn over time how to better help future mothers. Of course that means we’re dealing with a generation of guinea pigs and that’s terribly unfortunate. I wish I had all the answers!
As for advocates, I would love to move away from “Breast is Best” and “Fed is Best” because what’s best for every individual baby/mother may be different. Like I said in my post, I see a lot of benefit in saying “Breast is Normal” and “Fed is Minimum.” Formula is “alternative,” not “equal,” and there’s nothing wrong with an alternative for those who need or want it.
You were truly brave! I went through similar experience as you, but i gave up much much faster. Probably because I was diagnosed by several lactation specialists as one of those 2% women who really cant produce much milk. It was in the end determined that i was managing to produce less than 50% of my baby needs, as i didn’t have fully developed milk ducts. It was devastating thing go learn, making me think less of myself, like i was not complete, but in the same time I wasn’t giving up. I was trying at all possible ways to make my milk production higher but it just didn’t really work. First time it happened i had to substitute half with formula, and half breastmilk, but baby preferred the bottle as he was able to be filled much faster, then i switched to pumping in order for him to have at least some breast milk. This way we managed to pull out for some 3-4 months before i completely stopped producing any milk no matter how much i pumped. For my second pregnancy it was even worse, not only i was with low milk flow, but my baby had high arched palate and couldn’t latch, i spend hours working with experienced moms and i did some breastfeeding with my first one, i was supposed to know how to help baby latch, but nothing helped me when the baby just couldn’t latch no matter which position i’d put him in. Every single latch was painful, tears were rushing down my cheeks, it was terrible. I knew what to expect from a newborn, but the pain was just much higher than with my first one. That’s when i decided to go full time pumping, and i haven’t regretted it. I was still not able to produce full amount of milk he needed, and i had to supplement with formula, and did so for about 9 months, but was much happier, and baby was fine. There is no reason for anyone to shame mothers for the choices they make, weather its exclusive breastfeeding, pumping, breastfeeding with added formula or full formula.
I am so glad u wrote this I have been stewing on this video for a long time! This is a comedy show and people need to remember that. Their goal is to make u laugh!!!
I looked up Courtney jung. I mean in the video she say “just ask professor Courtney Jung’ ya pause read the title she is a political science professor and yes she is an author of devil advocate books with titles like ‘when I was black’. I am pretty sure that a upper class white woman has no idea on that subject wither! This is a reffrence person that has no business giving medical advice to anyone for any reason PERIOUD.
They also completely left out the microbiology that is transferred vis breast milk and lied about asma (your baby is 20% more likely to get asma is u don’t breast feed Among other major non communal deceases
I have had people tell me that they reffrenced so me double blind research that was done but I can’t seem to find anything where they list the name of that research or where is was conducted of published.
I am not a formula bashed and yes there are moms that need it but they are the one offs. Most mothers and babies will do just fine with the right support!
Oh and one last thing yes breast feeding takes time that is cause feeding a baby takes time! If u get right down to it breast feeding is faster why is that cause all u have to do is give the baby the boob most feeding last 5-7 min then go back with ur day. Bottles have to be sterilized and formula has to be measured then u have to heat it right then u still sit down with ur baby and feed them the bottle and burp them.
Aaaarrrrgggg
I totally agree. ❤
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Moms who need formula are not one offs. Way to marginalize those of us who have no choice but to formula feed.
One offs? I didn’t say anything like that in my post, and I’m sorry you got the impression that I have that opinion.