The pampers coupons I get for new moms (not sure why, but they got my name even though my 'newborn' was a year old, maybe the date got entered wrong) come with a booklet that offers all kinds of non-diaper related parenting tips and advice, but the breastfeedign advice had me upset.
Has this been discussed here?
Why do they even 'need' to offer advice? The gist was, breastfeeding is great, if you can do it, and if not don't feel guilty, bottle feeding is just fine and then DAD can bond and you can sleep.
I knew it was going to bother me, and I'm overwhelmed enough right now with all the stuff goign on her and getting ready for travelling, so yesterday I MADE myself throw it away in the garbage (I had torn out one of the pages to post about a few weeks back) THEN today I got yet another big packet from them (I haven't opened it). It was taunting me, making me feel like I needed to do something about it, again. I think the last pampers thing has something about diapering that pissed me off as an ec'er (pun intended) and a previous one has me tsking because of the sleeping advice, etc. etc.
I was hoping I would find this already discussed, but didn't see anything.
The advice was not even close to the AAP guidelines. In this age of litigation, wouldn't the BEST policy be to say the LEAST about issues, so you can't be held accountable. Or if you are going to provide information to have it parrot a reliable sourse, such as the AAP.
Why do companies like Pampers think they even have to provide such a resource?
My head/heart hurts even more to think of parents who are getting their parenting information from their free papmpers coupons and not from .... well, see things are messed up there, too, as I guess I started getting my resources from thw What to excpect when you are expectng series and then ivillage before I even KNEW where to start and found my way here and to other resources. And my parents and many friends would have often fed me similar advice anyways, although I was lucky to be surrounded by a small few of natural minded (or whatever descriptive you prefer) parents/friends/relatives.
Sorry, rant over, and a bit rough right now. I don't have time to edit this well.
Jessica
Editing to add some highlights.. paraphrased
Titled:
pregnancy is great for thinking about how you will feed .... breast milk or formula?
Breast milk is best (the obigatory thing everyone says before then knocking it all down)
If you decide....
Breastfeeding is natural but not always the easiest...
If you decide to stick with it
Although many moms say they would prefer... sometimes its not physically possible or practical
Don't get stressed or feel guilty
Top picture of mom nursing
bottom picture of baby bottle feeding
I just got the 4-6 month 2008 edition, which had no mention of breastfeeding on skimming and just had some sleep training information to cry about.
Anyways, I still just don't get why every company feels the need to print all this stuff, but I guess they all don't want to be left out, and since companies have started to do this (probably the formula companies first with their hospital bags) everyone has to. Plus for those that are part of multiple brands it gives them a chance to promote their other stuff. Money driven that's for sure.
Has this been discussed here?
Why do they even 'need' to offer advice? The gist was, breastfeeding is great, if you can do it, and if not don't feel guilty, bottle feeding is just fine and then DAD can bond and you can sleep.
I knew it was going to bother me, and I'm overwhelmed enough right now with all the stuff goign on her and getting ready for travelling, so yesterday I MADE myself throw it away in the garbage (I had torn out one of the pages to post about a few weeks back) THEN today I got yet another big packet from them (I haven't opened it). It was taunting me, making me feel like I needed to do something about it, again. I think the last pampers thing has something about diapering that pissed me off as an ec'er (pun intended) and a previous one has me tsking because of the sleeping advice, etc. etc.
I was hoping I would find this already discussed, but didn't see anything.
The advice was not even close to the AAP guidelines. In this age of litigation, wouldn't the BEST policy be to say the LEAST about issues, so you can't be held accountable. Or if you are going to provide information to have it parrot a reliable sourse, such as the AAP.
Why do companies like Pampers think they even have to provide such a resource?
My head/heart hurts even more to think of parents who are getting their parenting information from their free papmpers coupons and not from .... well, see things are messed up there, too, as I guess I started getting my resources from thw What to excpect when you are expectng series and then ivillage before I even KNEW where to start and found my way here and to other resources. And my parents and many friends would have often fed me similar advice anyways, although I was lucky to be surrounded by a small few of natural minded (or whatever descriptive you prefer) parents/friends/relatives.
Sorry, rant over, and a bit rough right now. I don't have time to edit this well.
Jessica
Editing to add some highlights.. paraphrased
Titled:
Quote:
| What's the "breast" choice? |
Breast milk is best (the obigatory thing everyone says before then knocking it all down)
If you decide....
Breastfeeding is natural but not always the easiest...
If you decide to stick with it
Although many moms say they would prefer... sometimes its not physically possible or practical
Don't get stressed or feel guilty
Top picture of mom nursing
bottom picture of baby bottle feeding
I just got the 4-6 month 2008 edition, which had no mention of breastfeeding on skimming and just had some sleep training information to cry about.
Anyways, I still just don't get why every company feels the need to print all this stuff, but I guess they all don't want to be left out, and since companies have started to do this (probably the formula companies first with their hospital bags) everyone has to. Plus for those that are part of multiple brands it gives them a chance to promote their other stuff. Money driven that's for sure.
