The dreaded "F" word is being used with alarming frequency around Castle Studebake. May the gods take pity on me! My lovely wife is threatening me by introducing FORMULA into the diet of my little samurai.
Unlike the absurdly judgmental authors of just about every baby book lying around my flat, I really have no opinion when it comes to breast vs. bottle feeding. However when I hear the "F" word, all my selfish instincts tell me one thing: the breast is better. The breast means I get to sleep most of the night. (Oh beautiful worshipful sleep, how I adore and long for you and all associated with you.) Formula means I, Drake Studebake, might be asked - gasp! - to wake up at 2, 3, 4 and 5 am to feed little Throckmorton.
I'll die.
The only solution is to leaf through all these damn books, especially the ones with all the disturbing illustrations which remind me of learning about sex before I really understood what it was. Ack, that's something I would rather leave behind, but I must sacrifice. My sanity is at stake. I'll have to become as judgmental as one of these damn baby book authors. The things I do for my family... The things I do.
Monday, 13 July 2009
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Could you PLEASE post some pics of your little samurai?
You can share duties without adding in formula and bottles. After your wife nurses the baby, she can wake you to change him and rock him back to sleep. You can bathe him every night and take him for walks while your wife rests. This idea that the only way to share duties is to bottle feed formula is a bit ridiculous. I am the biggest feminist you will ever meet, but there are biological differences between men and women and women are meant to do the majority of the caregiving at this age. Nature provides milk for babies and it comes from mom. She had to carry the baby for 9 months and deliver him so things will never really be equal anyway. I say skip the formula and continue to provide your baby with the best nutrition possible.
"I am the biggest feminist you will ever meet, but there are biological differences between men and women and women are meant to do the majority of the caregiving at this age."
*rolling my eyes*
She doesn't give the fathers much credit?!
Follow what makes sense for you and your family and keep the crazy, opinionated folks out of your personal, family decisions. I love the way you wrote your post - it's quite refreshing to read a father's view.
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