Cute moment with my son..

[momtob&t]

My sister bottle feeds her new baby (whole 'nother thread). The other day our family was all at my grandmothers and my sister had a cannister of powdered formula on the table. My ds (6) was like, "mommy what is in that container" and I said "It is formula for aunt v's baby, b/c he doesn't nurse" My son looked at me confused and said "You mean she puts his booby milk into a bottle for him" and I said "No, that is not booby milk, formula is a substitute for booby milk" and he said "Oh, I bet that isn't as good, right?" I told him he was right. I was just so happy that to him bf is the normal not giving babies bottles of formula.

[LionessMom]

that is cute!!

[go0ber]

haha. maybe he caught a whiff of that stuff. dang!

[Bea]

Originally Posted by go0ber

haha. maybe he caught a whiff of that stuff. dang!

Sadly, I love the smell of formula. I just adore it. I've never fed my child it but years of nursing stroke patients and smelling nasogastric/PEG feeds like Osmolite and Jevity...they smell just like formula and they smell delicious.

Nurses clearly don't get enough meal breaks

[menomena]

Ah, normalizing nursing, one kiddo at a time!

Re: smell of formula. I, too, actually like the smell. It just smells like powdered milk and vitamins to me. My siblings and I were all formula-fed and I helped feed them a lot. I have fond memories of preparing bottles and snuggling with my little brothers. Now, of course, I have fond memories of playing with them and reading them stories and snuggling w/o bottles, but the smell of formula reminds me of those sweet times. : My little niece is formula-fed and when I take care of her I get intense nostalgia from the smell of her formula (and weirdly, even the smell of her skin and her diapers (wet).... Breastfed babies DO smell different!

Now the taste of formula (and most baby food)... blech.

[BUNGALOW10]

too cute!

[PJJ]

I sure get disappointed...

when there is a great post about mommy's milk and it gets extrapolated to how wonderful formula smells.

How does that happen here so often?

Is it some sort of passive-aggressive thing?

[GooeyRN]

Originally Posted by Bea

Sadly, I love the smell of formula. I just adore it. I've never fed my child it but years of nursing stroke patients and smelling nasogastric/PEG feeds like Osmolite and Jevity...they smell just like formula and they smell delicious.

Nurses clearly don't get enough meal breaks

MMMM Jevity...... : The smell of that when you didn't get a meal break makes you want to drink it!

Sadly, I like the smell of formula, too, even though we don't need to use it.

OP, its cool your ds knows that breast milk is best!

[menomena]

Originally Posted by PJJ

when there is a great post about mommy's milk and it gets extrapolated to how wonderful formula smells.

How does that happen here so often?

Is it some sort of passive-aggressive thing?

ABSOLUTELY NOT!! I am 100% pro-breastmilk, and donor milk when mom's own milk is unavailable. Dude, it was social commentary in the realest way. I was just saying, how weird is it, that formula is so accepted culturally that I associate the smell of formula and a formula-fed baby as the "default" baby smell to the point that I have nostalgic flashbacks to babysitting siblings and other babies... I mean, it took me a good six months to realize why I thought something was "off" about my baby - she didn't smell like a "baby" to me. DH's Grandma actually mentioned how sweet breastfed babies smell and then I was like "oh, duh." And truly, it wasn't until I babysat for me niece last fall that I totally connected the dots and realized that that is what I'd "remembered" as a baby smell all these years later. Even while nursing my own two children.

It's just so insidious. This is why it's important for us to normalize nursing and breastfed babies. I mean really... In my mind the smell of formula was the smell of babies. And that's just sad.

Of course, now the smell of my sweet kiddos is the default baby smell. And boy was I pleasantly surprised the BF baby poo is not the noxious stink bomb that formula baby poo tends to be.

[velcromom]

Wow, out of the mouths of babes. It really is a no brainer to someone without all the cultural conditioning!

OT!!
You know what I love the smell of, the big 25lb bags of powdered fake milk we fed to our beef calves. And I don't even like milk, but the smell of this calf feed was amazing. Heck the smell of a baby calf is amazing. Gosh I miss our cows!!

[spmamma]

Originally Posted by PJJ

when there is a great post about mommy's milk and it gets extrapolated to how wonderful formula smells.

How does that happen here so often?

Is it some sort of passive-aggressive thing?

I was actually quite surprised when I read the PPs about liking the smell of formula. I, too, have memories of the smell of formula but not ones that I'd say are nostalgic. I've never liked the smell.

[menomena]

it's not about thinking it's an inherently good smell. it's about when i was a child, all babies i knew were formula fed, therefore, the smell of formula was the smell of babies. i have fond memories of those babies, therefore the smell of formula triggered - via the well known smell-memory correlation - happy memories of those babies.

now, if my only contact with formula was to supplement a breastfed baby, then, yeah, i probably think it was terrible and disgusting.

again, this is not about describing how awesome formula smells, but acknowledge that it is powerfully associated with babies at many levels - even, well, especially, the subconscious.

OP - i'm sorry we hijacked your thread.

[Pumpkin_Pie]

That is so sweet! I so hope my son thinks the same way when he is old enough to talk. As for the smell of formula, it makes me want to retch... I had to give a couple of bottles of the stuff (organic even) to my daycare boy when he was small, and I made sure I washed it all off my hands, and washed my sink out immediately after making his bottle. I just couldn't stand the stuff. My son got ahold of the bottle and was moving it towards his mouth, and I freaked. : I didn't want that nasty stuff touching his sweet lips.

Don't get me wrong, I think it is the most fabulous stuff on earth if you need it, but if you don't, I think it is gross.