Gwen Stefani buys Medela

I loved my "Pump in Style". It was seriously my best friend for over a year.

I think it's also good to see celebrities promoting breastmilk.

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Heh. For some reason, for a minute there, I thought you meant she was buying *the company*.

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It's nice to see that not all celebrites hire nannies to tote and feed their kids for them. Although I suppose her nanny could be tote and feeding if she's buying a pump. Hmmm....well at least she's going with natures readymade baby food.

Fingers crossed that we don't see her buying infant cereal in three weeks.

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Serena,
I assume you mean you hope we don't see her buying infant formula in three weeks. So what if we do. Are you the baby food police? How she chooses to feed her baby is her decision. Maybe she will breastfeed for a while and it won't go well and she'll have to switch to formula. Maybe she won't have enough milk and she'll have to supplement. Maybe her breasts will get infected or she just plain won't like it.

Both of my children were breastfed and supplemented with formula out of necessity. My daughter was in a bili-bed in the hospital and could only be taken out for 10 min at a time, not long enough to struggle through first time mom and first time nursing, so we fed her formula. Out of the hospital, she took both.

My son was born 15 weeks early and he couldn't have my breast milk at first. When they finally started giving him milk, they gave him some breast milk, some formula (I had plenty frozen as I had been pumping the whole 3 mos he was in the hospital) But he needed more calories than was in my breast milk, so we alternated between preemie formula and my milk.

So, Serena, try not to be too judgemental of Gwen, even if she doen't live up to your high standards of Motherhood. We all do the best we can and make the best decisions we can for our families. And really, it's nobody else's business how we feed our babies.

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Michelle, there is nothing wrong with hoping that Gwen's baby will be fortunate enough to receive the only food that he was born to have: Breastmilk. Breastmilk is the biological norm for the human species, not a decision to make or a "high standard of motherhood" to live up to.

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I don't believe I implied there was anything wrong with hoping Gwen is able to breastfeed her baby IF THAT IS HER CHOICE. I just think we expend too much energy judging other parents' decisions regarding THEIR children. How would you feel if someone was there watching and critiquing every decision you made and telling you how wrong you are if they disagree with you?

Also, if "Breastmilk is the biological norm for the human species" all babies and mothers would be able to nurse with no difficulties. Not all women are able to breastfeed and not all babies are capable of nursing.

Last, it's none of your damn business whether a mother breastfeeds or bottle feeds. We need to stop telling people how to parent their own children. If someone were to do the same to you, you would tell them to back the hell up, and rightfully so.

We need to remember, that in the end, how you fed your children is not as important as the fact that you loved and protected them.

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Michelle,
Are you actually denying that babies are born to be breastfed like every other mammal on earth? If babies aren't born to drink breastmilk, what are they biologically meant to eat? Milk substitute made from the waste products of dairy processing? Really?

I'm not the one judging anyone--what anyone wants to feed their kid is up to them (although I don't know why someone would want to feed their kid substandard nutrition, but that's their "choice"). But trying to provide impressionable minds with facts so they can make their own informed "choice" is nothing to be ashamed of. Providing facts about a biological process is hardly "judging". If you take it as such, then perhaps it is your own self you need to look at.

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