Anyone seen the "Formula Fed America" trailer? - Page 2

[tndixiemom]

Formula is not a failure. Many children have been fed formula and they are happy, healthy, intelligent children. That is not failure.

[Sustainer]

I meant that formula fails to come close to human breastmilk.

http://www.mamadearest.ca/en/info/breast-or-bottle.htm

Breastmilk doesn't give children more than what they need. Breastmilk is just the normal thing to feed children. Formula is not as good. It doesn't have anywhere near the number of ingredients. It isn't what children are meant to consume.

Breastmilk facilitates NORMAL brain development. Formula is substandard in this regard. Breastmilk facilitates normal eye development. Formula is substandard in this regard. Breastmilk facilitates normal immune development. Formula is substandard in this regard. And so on and so forth.

Neither breastmilk nor formula "enhances" a child's systems. Neither of them gives children more than what they are supposed to have. Formula gives less.

http://www.motherchronicle.com/watchyourlanguage.html

[Babyruth348]

12 weeks is the total number of weeks one can usually take off for FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act). That is how long your job is protected. Most people can only take 6 because most companies only pay salaries for up to 6 weeks. Where I work it's only 4 weeks at 60% of your pay IF you are full time for 1 year before you take your leave. We have to use PTO for the first 2 weeks.

[transylvania_mom]

6 weeks? wow. My apologies, I read 12 weeks on another website.
This is how much my mom got in Romania when it was a communist country.

I nursed my ds for 4 years, I currently nurse baby dd, but I wouldn't have made it to 7 weeks in those conditions...

Before punishing and chastising mothers for their "choice", I think the social environment needs to change, I don't see it as a real choice. Jmo, I'm just an outsider, though.

[calebsmommy25]

Wow. Thanks for sharing this! I can't wait to see it. I hope it does open people's eyes and mind to breastfeeding here in this country. We need it. Our children need it.

[Sustainer]

Mothers should definitely not be punished or chastised. The fault is with society, the medical industry, and the formula industry. Mothers are given incomplete information, inaccurate information, and misleading information. They are denied the education they need about the risks of formula and the importance of breastfeeding.

[Bena]

Originally Posted by ASusan

Who gets 12 weeks of leave? I had 6.

Ok, so I'm off topic from the original post, but I must ask (and I ask this with all the respect in the world!!! It's something that's been bothering me for a while)
Where is the outrage? Where are the lobbyists and petitions and marches?
Here, (Canada) we get ONE YEAR of mat leave, covered by EI. I CANNOT imagine only 6 weeks. CAN-NOT!
But I've never heard of any movement to change the parent leave in the US. Is there one? It's just not very well covered by media? What's going on?
Please tell me I'm just ignorant to it?

I guess this is a bit on topic, because I think the "core" of the problem is there...breastfeeding is alot of work, at first. Breastfeeding while working is a completely different ballgame, and I can completely understand how a mother would resort to formula if she has to go to work for 8 hours a day.

[mamaofthree]

here is the thing... breastfeeding isn't an either or. i have worked after all 5 of my children were born. two i was able to successfully pump 100% of all of the milk they needed. the other three need formula occasionally. but i still breastfed on the days i was home and the time i was home. even if you are unable to pump all the milk your child needs, doesn't mean you have to stop breastfeeding all together. the thing with breastfeeding is, the more they nurse the more milk you make. so when i was home we nursed A LOT and my supply would stay up. if i ended up working a few shifts in a row my supply would go down some, BUT when i would get home from the hospital we NURSE A LOT again.
my most recent baby (who will be three) got about one bottle of formula ever night i worked... but here we are at age three STILL breastfeeding.
i think that is a mistake that so many people (even on here) make. that it is either 100% breast milk or 100% formula... but it doesn't have to be that way. and yes pumping is a PIA, but so what. i have pumped in nice "pumping rooms" and in offices, bathrooms, in my car, you do it. and even if pumping is out of the question, you can still nurse when you get home from work and on your days off.
to me there is no excuse to not nurse for at least the first year (unless there are actual problem). maybe not 100%, but some of the time.

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[mamaofthree]

Originally Posted by Bena

Ok, so I'm off topic from the original post, but I must ask (and I ask this with all the respect in the world!!! It's something that's been bothering me for a while)
Where is the outrage? Where are the lobbyists and petitions and marches?
Here, (Canada) we get ONE YEAR of mat leave, covered by EI. I CANNOT imagine only 6 weeks. CAN-NOT!
But I've never heard of any movement to change the parent leave in the US. Is there one? It's just not very well covered by media? What's going on?
Please tell me I'm just ignorant to it?

I guess this is a bit on topic, because I think the "core" of the problem is there...breastfeeding is alot of work, at first. Breastfeeding while working is a completely different ballgame, and I can completely understand how a mother would resort to formula if she has to go to work for 8 hours a day.

THIS!!!
i think the reason is the same reason we fight over healthcare coverage. because NO ONE HERE gets a "free lunch". you can't have people sitting around caring for babies unless they are paid to do so. you can't have people getting something for nothing. because that is "socialist" and we can't have that. we can't have people working together for the common good... that doesn't make good shoppers. just like older americans not wanting to pay property taxes that fund schools... why should they? their kids are grown. grrr.

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[Minerva0302]

Originally Posted by phathui5

http://www.formulafedamerica.com/

I just watched it. Not sure what I think yet, but I'd like to see it when it comes out.

Another CNYer here! Is it coming to select theaters or tv? And does it say when any where?

[annettemarie]

I have removed a couple posts from this thread as they were off-topic to the forum. Discussing maternity leave and how they affect breastfeeding is fine. However, please refrain from conversations about family planning and who should or shouldn't have a child based on their chances of breastfeeding. It's off-topic to the forum and hurtful. And please remember that, as per the Lactivism forum guidelines as well as the User Agreement, labeling mothers who choose to formula feed in negative terms is not appropriate on MDC.

Feel free to PM me with any questions or concerns.