Read other letters about this article

• Thursday, December 22, 2005 02:16 PM

  Please, please stop beating this dead horse.

  You know, I DON'T CARE whether women choose to bottlefeed or breastfeed. I really don't. They should have the choice to do whatever the hell they want, but I am here to tell you, as many of my thirty-something and above brethren are, that we were formula fed and somehow--somehow!--developed into normal, healthy, intelligent children who went on to get Ph.D.'s and become doctors and lawyers and whatever and still call our mothers weekly and send them tulips on their birthdays and Mother's Day. And all through my childhood I sat in a carseat that was like a booster seat and a TOTAL DEATHTRAP in a car that didn't have airbags, and when I was eight and my sister was four we used to fight all the time about who got to ride shotgun (and even when my sister lost she'd still outgrown the car seat. Oh, yeah, and my brother was breastfed and although he got through college by the skin of his teeth and has a good job, he is now neurotic and obsessive-compulsive and unable to maintain a relationship with a woman other than his mother and sisters, but that might not have anything to do with breastfeeding...come to think of it, it's probably because of his VACCINATIONS, yeah, that's it! Gee, I have no idea how we made it to adulthood relatively unscathed.

  Please stop. Stop it RIGHT NOW! Campaigns to promote breastfeeding in places where it makes a great deal of economic and health sense, like developing nations where formula is expensive and the water supply is full of heavy metals and evil microbes, I can understand. But for the rest of you, it's all insecurity and gamesmanship.

  —Marianna Trench Read Marianna Trench's other letters
  Permalink
  Flag
  Click "Submit Flag" if you feel this post is inappropriate. Explain why below if you wish.

  Cancel