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I know, I know, it's so mainstream that I shouldn't be surprised, right?
I subscribed to Parents' over a year ago when I was newly pregnant, in part to get the magazine-subscription guy off my porch. And I signed up for a two-year (or was it three?) subscription! So last night I was nursing dd in bed and reading it and there was an article on all the mean child-free people who want kids out of the public entirely. Fine, I agree with the point of the article. But.... the picture they showed was three (I guess) CF people on a park bench looking angrily at a mom with a baby. Except I would have looked angrily at her too, because she was absent-mindedly holding up a bottle to her kid in a cadillac stroller, looking the other way.
Breast or bottle aside, doesn't every baby deserve to be held while being fed?!?
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So should I write a letter to the editor or not bother? I'm also mad about all the Similac ads which go against the WHO code, and the fact that one of their contributing columnists is the guy who wrote those articles, one pro-epidural, one anti-breastfeeding, in the Boston Globe recently. I'm wondering if I can even try asking for my money back if I discontinue my subscription.
I subscribed to Parents' over a year ago when I was newly pregnant, in part to get the magazine-subscription guy off my porch. And I signed up for a two-year (or was it three?) subscription! So last night I was nursing dd in bed and reading it and there was an article on all the mean child-free people who want kids out of the public entirely. Fine, I agree with the point of the article. But.... the picture they showed was three (I guess) CF people on a park bench looking angrily at a mom with a baby. Except I would have looked angrily at her too, because she was absent-mindedly holding up a bottle to her kid in a cadillac stroller, looking the other way.
Breast or bottle aside, doesn't every baby deserve to be held while being fed?!?
So should I write a letter to the editor or not bother? I'm also mad about all the Similac ads which go against the WHO code, and the fact that one of their contributing columnists is the guy who wrote those articles, one pro-epidural, one anti-breastfeeding, in the Boston Globe recently. I'm wondering if I can even try asking for my money back if I discontinue my subscription.
