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Pumping exclusively usually is, because a child stimulating your nipples is much more effective than a pump. However, mixed pumping (pumping at work, nursing when you're at home) is generally easier and more effective. Pumping exclusively can be, as I said, done. Its just much more of an...

Better for who? Cochlear implant surgery is still surgery. There is a risk of infection, including meningitis (the meningitis vaccine does NOT prevent all types of meningitis!) as with any surgery, there is the risk of anesthesia death, and really all sorts of complications to be considered...

You'll find that I already responded to the false accusation of wanting to "put women in their place". But perhaps you missed that post? Very easy to do, given that it is directly above your own. :laugh2:

No, I don't. You can nurse part time and pump when you go to work. You can get breast milk from a breast milk bank. Nothing about breastfeeding stops you from being able to work. But I do think that having a child is a commitment to doing what is best for that child. I do not think that a...

Good for you. That does not change the fact that more children would survive infancy and childhood, and not go on to develop a host of diseases later in life, if more children were breastfed. Formula kills children. Not -all- children, but enough that I don't regard it as a "personal choice".

A lack of mother's antibodies. A personal suspicion I have with the breastfed-babies-being-smarter thing is that the lack of cholesterol in infant formulas may be to blame. Here in the US, formulas all (AFAIK) don't have much or any... yet cholesterol is essential for myelin development and...

The commenters on this article are terrible. How does someone not have the right to an interpreter at a camp? If this were a decent, dressed event, would you feel differently? :roll:

Pumping into a bottle exclusively is a failing strategy, though. Women who try to exclusively pump often fail because you cannot usually produce as much milk with a pump as you can while nursing from a breast. If your mother managed to feed your brother 6 months of exclusive breastmilk and 2...

I'm like -super- militant about reducing childhood deaths and artificial-feeding related illnesses, because I'm an awful person and totally ridiculous. :laugh2:

If all children were breastfed (in the us), then it should prevent 1.8 postneonatal deaths per 10 000 live births ... 720 postneonatal deaths might be prevented or delayed each year at little cost or risk. Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child health and survival...

Bottlefeeding dolls teach children that bottlefeeding artificial formula is normal, and perpetuates the cultural acceptability of bottlefeeding artificial formula. Feeding artificial formula from a bottle kills children. ... you don't see a problem with that?

More breast feeding = more living children, an even more important statistic. In the studies and resources I cited previously, over 1 million more living children in the world per year, and 720+ more living children in the US alone per year. That's not counting people who survive artificial...

Because breastfeeding isn't about sex at all, and kids SHOULD see nursing! The world health organization recommends that children are nursed exclusively until 6 months, and nursed with complimentary foods for at least two years. By contrast, -one in four- american children is never breastfed...

You keep citing potential "complications" to polygamy in a not-so-covert attempt to make it sound like a big old circus. Much like one allocates their financial resources in any other circumstances, they could will it. Otherwise, even split. Hey, look! problem solved.

That's something to be discussed before the relationship begins or other people are added to it, just like any other relationship. There are poly families with only 1 person working, and there are childless poly families, and there are poly families in which all the parents work and...

Because marriage, the contract, not marriage-the-religious-delusion has countless legal benefits.

Saying that women who stay at home to care for their children are "free sex nannies" IS degrading. It implies that their only function in the relationship, or in life, is to be fucked and raise children. That IS degrading, and unless someone has told you that you can call them a "free sex...

You seem to dislike the degradation of women yet apparently are unable to comprehend how -incredibly degrading- what you just said was. A first/second/third/tenth wife who stays at home is not a "free sex nanny"- they are a MOTHER, even if they are not the child's biological mother.

Simple solution: any consenting adults should be able to enter, modify, or withdraw from a marriage contract with any other consenting adults at any time. Female, male, other, gay, straight, bi, mono, poly: consenting adults should be able to enter into contracts with consenting adults.

A feral is specifically a cat which has been wild for long enough to have deeply ingrained wild behaviors, or which was born wild and has been wild for a long time. A kitten that was with humans and its litter for the first four weeks of life (about the time many backyard breeders start trying...