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Originally Posted by emma01
I just have a point that I would like to put out there, a lot of people here are saying that women ONLY breastfeed their babies and while in public, if the baby starts crying they NEED to be fed there and then. Does that mean the mother has to be by her babies side up until they are over being breastfed? So for example if the mother had to go away, either to a funeral, back to work, or heaven forbid had to be taken into hospital for an illness, or had to travel overseas for whatever reason, what would happen then? The baby cannot possibly be breast fed there and then because the mother is away, and the father, or babysitter cannot do it! My friends mum had post-natal depression and hardly saw her baby for the first 6 months as she was SECTIONED in hospital? She couldn't breast feed!
And how about if the dad wants to take the baby out and it starts crying in public???
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Yes, women who only want to breastfeed their babies have to stay by their baby's side pretty much all the time. Usually as babies get older, they don't need to be fed as often, and then the mother can go out for a few hours etc. If a woman wants to go back to work or something like that, then I would assume that she doesn't mind her baby being bottle fed. Women who want to only breast feed their babies wouldn't go back to work until their baby was weaned. And women who are physically incapable of breastfeeding their babies obviously wouldn't be able to and they would have to be bottle fed. But the women who are lucky enough to have the choice to breastfeed and who want to do so just don't leave their babies for too long.
I'm not really sure what point you were making...