at October 5, 2006 12:21 PMThat sounds you hear is a million mothers heaving a big sigh of relief over this news - BBC NEWS | Health | Breast milk ‘does not boost IQ’ - via Ann Althouse.
Believe me, this is for all those women (including me) who soldiered on armed with their massive breastpump bags - trying to ooze a little bit of IQ at a time for their children in the privacy of cars, bathroom stalls and new mother rooms (for a few lucky ones, like me). This is also for those who want to tease us - “nyah, nyah, nyah - my baby’s smarter because I brestfed him”. Yay! aparrently that was not the point!
Can you imagine how much guilt you offload off of a new mom who is trying to reconcile her career, her non-baby-oriented-life and the guilt of not being able to do something so simple for her baby?
Now, don’t get me wrong - I am not against breast-feeding considering how many advantages there are to it - the baby’s health, the mother’s health, the whole bonding experience. I loved it and I missed it when it was over. It is just that I don’t appreciate people beating thos moms who are unlucky enough to not have the facilities to keep doing it over their head with guilt sticks for being unable to breastfeed for longer.
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‘something for the breast-feeding snobs to think about. Thats what I thought when I read this piece of news yesterday.
Trying to boost kids’ IQ by going to any lengths to breast-feed feels like trying to push through some smartness into the kid, that was missed out when the genes were passed on!
Posted by: Sameer at October 4, 2006 10:00 PM
Absolutely, Sameer - not all people are privileged in circumstances. As for pushing IQ into the brain that was unfortunately not in the genes, ever wonder what the Baby Einstein market was all about? :p
Posted by: shanti at October 5, 2006 12:21 PM