Breastfeeding vs. Bottle

Holy smokes...

I'm having some breastfeeding issues, and despite lots of advice from our nice health visitor, I was considering joining a "mommy-community" to exchange experienses and such. But after browsing through a few, I'm properly terrified!

Some people are really mean about breastfeeding!

We can all easily agree that breast milk is the best thing for the baby. But some people seem to think that if you don't breastfeed 100%, then you're practically a child abuser! Eeek!

As much as I'd like to discuss my baby with other moms, I'm SO not equipped to defending my choices to people like that! I mean, seriously! Am I a child abuser, because I think my baby's hunger being sated is more important than "doing the only proper/natural/best thing"? Am I simply unintelligent because I don't think that breastfeeding for hours and hours to stimulate milk that clearly isn't enough is neccesarily the best thing for either baby or me?

If bottle feeding gives me a happy, healthy baby, then I'm more than happy to skip the breastfeeding.

For the record, I can breastfeed, and I do. But I do not have enough milk. And despite all the good advice and tons of methods of getting more milk, my son still needs a little extra from a bottle. And frankly, I'm fine with that.

Gotta go. My baby is hungry. (Very fitting actually.)

Fanfic quote of the day

"There's no way you'd ever consent to altering a 'vile starfleet rag' for free." Julian gave him a quick kiss before heading for the bath, "I wish you better luck with the Romulan senator--you seem to be losing you touch." he spoke the the door as the sonics splashed in the background, "Comes from hanging around humans for so long most likely!"

"*THAT* was a despicable thing to say!" Garak sulked as he slammed out of the room as Julian chuckled maddeningly through the door.

From The Truth Hurts by J.A Chapman.

(Was very close to posting something porny, but that would be self torture, as I'm STILL not allowed to have sex... and very cranky for it too...)

Wallpaper meme thingy

01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal. (Err... no, you don't have to... really.)

02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper.

03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this. The point is to see what you had on.

( Oh boy, picture came out HUGE! )

I can has Calvin and Hobbes?

Can anyone here help me find a Calvin and Hobbes strip? It's one where Calvin sticks his nose into a jar (I think it's contains mustard), takes a deeeeep sniff and his head "explodes". (Not quite sure if it does or not, but the facial expression is certainly interesting...)

I need to find out what the punchline is! It bugs me that I can't remember.