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There is a shortage of formula for Babies. Is there a shortage of Breasts?

Posted by deleted 2 years, 11 months ago to Politics
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Why are babies sucking on rubber nipples filled with highly processed cow's milk when there's a Mom with Real Food in a Real Boob?

I can't put any photos or links I'll get banned :D


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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 2 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, and they are paying back the years THEIR parents invested in creating and raising THEM. And those children will also pay those years back by caring for the old folks at end-of-life. It's nature's cycle controlled by the selfish genes that make life possible and continuing.
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  • Posted by 2 years, 11 months ago
    The baby formula is made from cow's milk and is exposed to all the antibiotics and hormones that cows are pumped up on. Formula is manufactured by a long process with many steps including stripping out and then adding back fat and fat soluble vitamins along with water soluble vitamins. Original "organic" cow's milk from the store or farm might just be fine. Who can't buy milk for a baby?
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  • Posted by 2 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's a sacrifice of 20 years of one's life to dedicate it to the children being raised. No, we CAN'T have it ALL.
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  • Posted by 2 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Back then women were much tougher than the twits and marshmallows that have become today's women.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I've read in 1900 the average American life expectancy was 49. Infant mortality played a role in making that number so low compared to todays 75.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 2 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My daughter had blocked ducts a few times with both her babies. Very painful ,the poor thing. But she would say today a small price to pay for those amazing little humans. Those moments of humanity will get everyone in one way or another. In fact it is unavoidable. Hopefully there will be sunshine after rain.
    We seem to live our lives in opposites. Positive/negative Pleasure/pain Happy/sad Hungry/full Hot/cold Confidence/fear Right/wrong and many more . Seems everyone touches those box’s , they are unavoidable. Because of that, it is a great idea to stay on the positive side of those that you can control.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 2 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There certainly are and I have been singing that tune for several years . I will name names at th3 top Rothschilds , Barusch , Warburg, House of Orange , Windsor , Schwab , Gates , Soros , Foundations after Foundations after Foundations to name the upto 90 Delete Families. They are the Masters we are slaves and the state is everything. Of course as masters they are the state. It is the Prussian philosophy. You might find this essay of interest I’ll provide a link “This is a story about Prussia. Prussia is an empire that is no more; a royal dynasty that is no more; a state that is no more. ‘No more’ to the public eye, that is; Prussia is now hidden, invisible and deeply penetrated within almost every nation state and the matrix of corporations that control governments. This is a story about a Horrible Invisible Enemy.”
    https://prussiagate.substack.com/p/th...
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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 2 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You're right, Dobrien. That was caustic sarcasm. The trouble is, there are policymakers out there who think that way.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 2 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Especially when Gates has a new laboratory created artificial breastmilk product he is manufacturing.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 2 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree with much of your comment but I take issue with a couple things I think your No 1 should be last not first ...The most recent U.S. maternal mortality ratio, or rate, of 17.4 per 100,000 pregnancies represented approximately 660 maternal deaths in 2018. This ranks last overall among industrialized countries. More than half of recorded maternal deaths occur after the day of birth.
    “So what if a few billion die from war and PlanDEMics” I can’t believe that you mean that.
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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 2 years, 11 months ago
    Why don't all women breastfeed? Let me count the ways. 1) died in childbirth (mother or child or both); 2) severe illness incapacitating one or the other; 3) "inconvenience", as with working mothers who have to pump their milk and worry about leaking through their clothes in the office; 4) vanity of losing firmness after weaning; 5) life situations of broken family, violent relations, drug and other problems; 6) ignorance where instinct leaves off; 7) availability of substitute mothers (“wet nurses” who keep lactating like a milked cow).

    All unfortunate situations, but nature is wasteful with life, and pragmatic. As long as enough are born and grow strong, missing out on some doesn't affect the big picture, only the individual case. The same with all lifeforms--not all are born as world-class specimens, either. Nature is indifferent to individual happiness; that's up to us. And yet it is the unique breakthrough by a unique individual that turns tides and levels mountains. One in a million will do to keep us going. So what if a few billion perish in wars and plagues?

    As for breastfeeding, ultimately that is no one else's business, just as with contraception. Formula makers gain from mothers not nursing--sell more formula. Here is where the individual mother needs to make an independent decision, since such businesses are clever salespeople and "influencers". As long as people can be motivated away from or towards choices not in their own best long-term interest, there will be controversies in our complicated societies.

    As to the attraction of breasts to men, the deeply buried subconscious whose job it is to instigate mating and reproduction--call it the selfish gene--tempts and tricks males to want sex, especially with fit females, which sometimes does, in fact, produce infants that will need to suck on those nipples that for the male are so attractive and whose exercise and stimulation trains the woman's body towards motherhood and contractions. Pleasurable sensations are the gene's trickery. Otherwise a smart species would avoid altogether the labor pains and decades of devotion to raising the next generation. We have a long way to go to figure out how to have life, liberty, and potential happiness all in one package and still keep human evolution going as a positive process.

    And yes, I did bear and nurse three children.
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  • Posted by Flootus5 2 years, 11 months ago
    I am the last one to ask anything about babies and how to feed them, but my main reaction to this story is this: What an opportunity could exist if we actually had a free market and the government got OUT OF THE WAY!
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  • Posted by $ Markus_Katabri 2 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Funny how it always works out for the ruling class. But for the straight woman living in the trailer and working two jobs not so much.
    Good thing he tells us he’s oppressed. Otherwise how would we know?
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 2 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yep..goats...horses....all the same. My wife has 2 female goats, just for fun. One has a form of seizures, that makes her unsuitable to breed, so the woman who had her gave her to us.
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  • Posted by Ben_C 2 years, 11 months ago
    Breast feeding for working mom's can be a challenge. It requires a pump and storage. Lactation is not always consistent. Working at home is a better scenario if possible. And when my younger brother and sister were born it was milk from contented cows and a formula my mom concocted. We three developed normally as best as I can tell.
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  • Posted by LarryHeart 2 years, 11 months ago
    No breasts in my house except the chicken cutlets. LOL
    This is a business opportunity for Wet Nurses.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 2 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, there is a replacement formula for goats and sheep that we use when necessary. It's made from one can of Meyenberg brand evaporated goat milk, reconstituted with water, plus one raw egg, plus one half envelope of Knox unflavored gelatin. Put in blender. Feed sparingly. When a good-producing ewe or doe gives birth we try to collect some of the colostrum that we can put into the freezer, so that a newborn to a dry mother can get some before we switch over to the goat-milk formula.

    The result of bottle feeding a lamb or kid provides the heartwarming but difficult situation of having a "bottle lamb." We've got one right now, and she follows us everywhere. Mary Sawyer of Sterling, Massachusetts had one that followed her to school one day. Yes, really.

    Goat milk for human infants is likely a very good idea.
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