Things have been quiet here and by quiet I mean busy.
The walk is one month away, hard to believe.
School is going well, knock wood. Little one seems happy and she hasn't told me anything that would make me nervous about her class, yay! Let it stay this way.
I was watching a show today that had a celebrity on talking about her child and his food allergies. She said "I did everything right, I breastfed etc and he still has allergies"
I'm not bringing this up to start a debate on breastfeeding by any means. It just made me feel bad, as if she was saying that bottle feeding was wrong. Even the Dr. on the show said that she did everything right. It, to me, was a slap in the face. It made me feel like bottle-feeding moms did something wrong.
Ugh......
Mom guilt stinks.......
I hear you on this. No debate, here, either. However...at times I do feel guilt is pushed on me (still my choice to take the guilt on, of course!) once someone finds out I bottle fed. I breast fed with our older son, it wasn't working at all...so we wound up bottle feeding. We had such a challenging time with breastfeeding that I didn't even try (wasn't going down the same path) with our younger son. He was completely bottle-fed. I wrestle with the notion of his having food allergies more severe and more in number. Both boys have food allergies, however. So I think it's important to remember that as moms, we "could do everything right for our individual child's needs" and still wind up with food allergic children. I've read much research regarding this...it's at least a tiny bit of freedom from the guilt.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see that I am not alone. I can question myself until I am blue in the face but it makes me sad when moms go after moms.
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