There are a lot of us who bottle feed, for many reasons. Anyone who questions, much less judges your choices, can go scratch... including yourself! Remember constantly that your hormones and chemical balance will take time to normalize, and take it easy on yourself. You just made a person out of slime in your body! You…

HI. My wife struggled as well with both our kids. She takes anti anxiety meds which she couldn’t be on while breastfeeding. She was a less happy, less present, lesser version if herself for our kids as a consequence. Breastfeeding is fine. It is nice for the kids. But it is not such a story book fairy tale experience…

Don’t even allow those militant breast-feeding activists into your hospital room. You’re doing the right thing. The best thing for your baby is to be fed and to have a mom who is not under unnecessary stress.

As someone who became a mother via adoption, just do what works for you and your baby. There's no one way to do it right. If your baby is thriving, that's all that matters. Ignore the should and go with what is best for you.

I refused to breastfeed because it didn’t appeal to me at all. I didn’t give my babies colostrum or anything, simply didn’t care too. I got so much shit from my nurses and my BF’s mom, but I DGAF. Formula feeding is fantastic and I never regretted my choice. I recommend you check out skeptical OB for some real…

People are the worst but it’s no one’s business and I would tell them that if anyone was bold enough to say anything to my face. “But it’s not really your business is it?”

Welcome to the wonderful world of parenting where what’s right and best for you & your family is the only thing that really counts.

Congratulations on the birth of your child! I had a very similar experience. The pressure to breastfeed was overwhelming. My milk wasn’t coming in, my child was starving, the La Leche League was telling me not to give her formula. This went on for days. I was exhausted and depressed, my baby was suffering. Our…

NOPE! Fed is best and everyone else can go hang. There is no part of parenting (esp mothering) that isn’t highly contentious and full of butthurt opinions that will be used like a cudgel against you. Those people who care about breast v bottle are assholes who won’t be there for you in the darkest part of the night…

Right now, your hormones are off the rails. Nothing is right! I nursed my kids but had to supplement at the two week appointment because they weren’t gaining “enough” weight. I felt SO GUILTY, and I went into the entire nursing thing with a very “we will see what happens! Formula in fine, breastmilk is fine,…

Kern, I am sorry that you’re going through this. That little boy is lucky to have you & your mom.

Hey Jezzies, can we talk about anxiety? I’m having a rough go of it lately and I don’t quite know if I need treatment or medication or just better coping skills.

Hi everyone! I am in need of cute animal pictures. I bombed a really important interview last week for the perfect job, and I am dead inside now.

So took a trip to Exeter, which is the county town, a city in which you can walk from an originally Roman but now historical hodge-podge though still walkable city wall, past a Norman/Gothic cathedral and medieval quarter, to a 21st century shopping district, through Georgian terraces, and onto a Norman castle in all…

I don’t know where else to dump this but I’ll make an SNS-worthy comment to you, Jerry.

Maybe.

It’s a pretty old term for a cad, which is an old term for a playboy, which is a not so old term for a douchebag. Or at least that’s how I understand it. 

you shouldn’t have added the disclaimer, you had me wondering if rakes was some sort of slang that I’m no longer young enough to be hip too.

Soulja Boy, real name DeAndre Cortez Way, came outside and, Kayla alleges, punched her, kicked her to the ground, tied her to a chair using an extension chord in his garage and left her there for six hours.

nothing like a delicious boot to lick to start off the week, huh?