The apparently "NEW" way to feed babies! - Page 3

[Sustainer]

Convenience is *everything* in this stupid culture.

[pjlioness]

How ironic....

Scroll down on the Podee site and see:

PODEE GIVE-ME-A-HUG BOTTLE INSULATOR

Italics mine. I am speechless.



Pam

[LunaMom]

Originally posted by gurumama:

What's next--a mechanical hand to pat the baby's back when they wake up in the middle of the night (in their crib, in their own room), with a voice recording mechanism of the mother saying, "Shhh, it's ok, go back to sleep"?

Well, there are bouncy seats that are voice activated, so when the baby cries they vibrate and play music...and there are two-way baby monitors so you can "soothe your baby without having to come into the room!" What marvelous inventions. :

Did anyone who linked to the Podee site notice that they said you could use this horrible contraption in a SWING? Oh, that's great, feed a baby while he's swinging back and forth. : And I just love how some of these sites make it sound like it's for freeing ONE hand while you hold the baby with the other. You know that is not how most people would use these. The only thing I can see is simultaneously feeding twins, maybe, and honestly, I have a friend with adopted twins and he feeds them both at the same time by sitting on his bed with each baby cradled in a boppy.

And I disagree with those who say this would be useful in a car. I don't think babies should be drinking/eating in a car if they are alone in the backseat. Too dangerous. I know that older ff babies get handed bottles in the car all the time, and I never understood this. I mean, I breastfed, so it was never an option to feed dd in the car when it was moving anyway. We just listened to a lot of music to keep her happy (and nursed BEFORE we got in the car!).

[Sustainer]

Juice used to be the only thing that would keep my dd from screaming the whole time in the car. Music didn't help. BF right before getting in the car didn't help. There was almost always someone in the backseat with her - usually my dp.

[lilyka]

I was at the mall of a,eric and saw these bottle insulators that looked like stuffed animals so that your baby would have something to snuggle while he ate. I had dd with me (3 weeks old) and the lady said "hey , just what you need" "No actually I have no need for that". I found it amusing though that you had to stick the bottle up the dolls butt.

[gurumama]

Ilyka, that contraption sounds so sad. It reminded me of the psychology experiment with the monkeys years ago, where they gave baby monkeys a wire mama-sized monkey or a soft, fuzzy-covered wire mama monkey, and they chose the soft one, of course.

so now we're covering our bottles with soft, fuzy things? cuddle your bottle?

I gave bottles to my first son (who is now 4) when we drove. He held his own bottle at around 6-7 months (though we always held him when he had a bottle--never propped). My second son is nearly 11 mo and he doesn't hold the bottle (he gets two a day for supplementing my breast reduction). He outright REFUSES. So he gets more cuddles! Good for him...

[bookmom]

babies holding bottles and weaning

Someone mentioned at the top of this thread that it's easier to bottle wean a baby who has been fed in someone's lap. I read this once in a book, too and I thought it was fascinating. The author's opinion was that a child can't walk around with a breast and have milk whenever he wants so when he weans it is easier. While the bottle-toting child gets attached to the bottle and it's harder to take it away.
I read this in an older child nutrition book as I was weeding the collection at the library where I once worked. I read that part out loud to my co-worker (who at the time had no children) and we recalled all of the toddlers we had seen coming into the library sucking away on a bottle. It's pervasive in this society.
Plus with this tube thing, how long would you use that? I mean do you use it when they are a newborn and then switch them to a regular bottle when they can sit up? I picture all these toddlers who have become so attached to their paci-bottles that someone invents a fanny-pack so they can carry around their beverage and keep sucking on the paci-straw as they go about their business.
Sick.

---Amy
mom to 2 non beverage hauling boys

[Jennifer Z]

Re: How ironic....

Originally posted by pjlioness
Scroll down on the Podee site and see:

PODEE GIVE-ME-A-HUG BOTTLE INSULATOR

This was one of the first things I noticed and was surprised it hadn't been mentioned until now.

I thought it was horribly ironic that a product that keeps you from holding/hugging your child would have a bottle insulator with that name. Terrible!

[MommyT]

Originally posted by Devrock
Convenience is *everything* in this stupid culture.

It's very sad.

It's such a parent-oriented society that we are in and the children are suffering. What ever happened to putting your child's needs first? Needs also being holding, cuddling and embracing every opportunity....and what better opportunity than during feeding? So sad.

[Viola]

Originally posted by bebesho2
BTW, when I was small I was taught to prop bottles on blankets when I babysat my cousins... Scary.

I will admit to propping at times, when I had to babysit my nieces and nephews. When I was about 12, I felt like I had to give bottles all the time to my infant niece who lived with us, and frankly, I detested it. I guess her mom didn't like it much either since she had me do it a lot. Then my younger sis had a lot of kids, and she was always too tired to even wake up at night. She propped, and there were times I propped if I was babysitting two or more of them.

Dislike of bottlefeeding was one of the reasons I wanted to breastfeed so much.

I have talked to bottlefeeding moms who have made it very clear that they hold their babies and bond with them while giving the bottles, so I know that not everyone is a propper.

Yesterday in the dentist's office, I saw a little baby holding her own bottle in a carseat on the floor. She honestly didn't look any older than 6 months old to me. My daughter thought that was great, for some reason, and she keeps talking about how when her new baby sibling is born, the baby will have bottles. I keep telling her that she drank from my breasts and the new baby will too. It bugs me that she is so fascinated by bottles that she even calls them by the name she uses for nursing.

[MommyT]

Originally posted by Amywillo
I saw a little baby holding her own bottle in a carseat on the floor. She honestly didn't look any older than 6 months old to me.

My MIL *brags* to me all the time that when DH was barely 5 months old, he was holding his own bottle. In the same story, she'll tell me how he had such bad ear aches until he was 2 years old. Go figure.

According to her I'm STILL bfing; my son is only 9 months old. A mentality I'll never understand. Like he's supposed to be an adult at 9 months old??? He's a baby!!! I just remind her that it's recommended to BF until one year of age and toddler initiated weaning after, and that's what I plan on doing.

I've always wanted to ask her if I should offer him a steak instead of the breast at his OLD age, maybe with a snifter of Grand Marnier and a cigar. :

[Sustainer]

Welcome to America

I took my baby to the park when she was seven months old. A little girl came up to us and asked where my baby's bottle was. I said she didn't have a bottle - she's breastfed. The little girl said, "At HER age? I don't believe it!"


When my nephew was 3 months old, I gave him an organic cotton bunny. My brother used it to prop his bottle. He called it "the bottle bunny - this thing is great." I wanted to throw up.

[LunaMom]

Oh, man, I would have taken the bunny back. That's terrible!

[kimbalicious]

QUOTE]that contraption sounds so sad. It reminded me of the psychology experiment with the monkeys years ago, where they gave baby monkeys a wire mama-sized monkey or a soft, fuzzy-covered wire mama monkey, and they chose the soft one, of course.[/QUOTE]



Oh my gosh -- I can't tell you how many times various contraptions for babies make me think of this! This feeding tube just upsets me. I, too feel so sad when I think of these babies not be held. I mean, it's one thing if the parent has a need (i.e. disability) that would necessitate the use of such a thing, but so many will use it just because it's convient. I (and dh) get so irritated with people who think children should be convient -- cause it so much more fun when they aren't.

I am so thankful that I chose to breastfeed -- I love snuggling with ds and getting those silly smiles and laughs and the occasional breastmilk spit take!