Almost 12 weeks...

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Your Week 12 Nurture Note From Lansinoh.com

Do you realize that by exclusively breastfeeding this long you have saved at least $500 that would have been spent on formula and feeding accessories? This calls for a celebration. How about arranging a “take-out” from a favorite or fancy restaurant, and lighting candles and nice background music for dinner tonight and celebrate your wonderful new family together.

I couldn't imagine spending that much on something that smells so bad.

Comments

[poggs.livejournal.com]

"Take-out". I love the way you guys take a perfectly good phrase like "Takeaway" and change part of it to make it sound more... quaint :-)

[ebonyraine.livejournal.com]

Hey man, it's not my fault!

[sparklielizard.livejournal.com]

The fancy meal, or the formula? ;-)

I did actually spend in excess of $500 on a really good quality breastpump for when I went back to work.. but I am very sure we saved a heck of a lot of money overall! I can never understand why in the UK at least, it is often the poorer people who formula feed. Crazy!

[ebonyraine.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that, too... and it makes no sense at all!

I spent about $300 for a breast pump and it's been worth every penny. We wouldn't have been able to make it through the first week and continue breastfeeding without it.

[sparklielizard.livejournal.com]

Probably the breast pump I bought for $500 (it was £250) is probably only $300 if I bought it in the US ;-) Gotta love the exchange rate!

It's definitely an area not worth skimping on though!

[medusa.livejournal.com]

I think that I have only ever encountered one person who uses formula and I didn't, thankfully, get close enough to smell it.

I informed my husband the other day that if for some reason I was ever unable to breast feed I would definitely hire a wet nurse or pay someone for donated breast milk. He thinks this is a bit odd. ;)

[ebonyraine.livejournal.com]

Well breastfeeding is worth 5 IQ points and invaluable immunities.

Ewan had one feeding of formula so I could get ahead with pumping in the beginning. Not only did he hate it and make terrible faces choking it down, but also spit back a lot of it. Even that smelled awful and looked terrible and yellow on the blanket. The diaper after that feeding smelled horrible as well. Made us so happy that we were dedicated to breastfeeding.

[medusa.livejournal.com]

My mother abandoned me when I was a couple of months old so I had to be bottle fed, although she seems to have breastfed all of my brothers and sisters for over two years each. I hate to say it but I am the only one who went to university or who appears to be capable of reading a book cover to cover. How annoying. On the other hand they are all as strong as oxen and never get ill and I am always discovering new allergies and have hay fever so clearly I got all of their extra IQ points (I turned down Mensa membership and they all left school at sixteen) but they got all of the immunities. ;)

I could never get the hang of pumping and so it was all about me for eighteen long months with Felix. I kind of miss it now though. :(