Similac formula recall

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I think there is a lot of guilt that women feel surrounding the entire early mothering process, and it sucks. Guilt if you can't breast feed, if you have to work, if you have to have a C-section, if you can't have a VBAC, if you use meds. If your child is healthy and happy, that's all that matters - and I say that as someone who felt shame and guilt. I think a lot of people act holier-than-thou about the things at which they succeed, and that causes a comparison contest.
What shame and guilt?
 

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In fairness, a lot of parents ARE morons. Not as in young and inexperienced, but flat out idiocracy style dumb, or damaged people (drugs, alcohol, mental illness, etc). So they often set up programs based on helping the lowest common denominator, so their kids have some kind of a fighting chance to not grow up dumb or damaged too.

Most important decision you will ever make - choosing your parents!
Unfortunately schools always teach to the dumb and hold up the rest and part of why we keep falling behind the rest of the developed world in STEM
 
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Having worked around healthcare for a long time - the difference is that you are the patient. If you get any sort of infection/illness related to your hospital stay, that is a negative on the hospital. Not a negative just in terms of "it's a bad look," but secondary infections, falls, and so on are all quality measures against hospitals. They are specifically encouraged to be very cautious.

The way it was framed made it seem like avoiding the risk of me spreading covid - I had been able to walk and was encouraged to do so first time around. I'm bitter if you couldn't tell :p
 
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Not exactly sure.
Unfortunately schools always teach to the dumb and hold up the rest and part of why we keep falling behind the rest of the developed world in STEM
While I understand basic integration of students with special needs, we take it WAY to far. If a student is performing a couple grades behind, or required an assistant to stay on course, or can’t sit still and quiet as much as the other students; you are holding back and punishing the other students for the one students integration. I spent many years working in that field and it does none of them any good in that situation. Typically the aide will just give the answer to avoid holding things up or distracting or the other students can’t concentrate or hear over the disturbance that is being made and they fall behind.

I am not saying to put the special needs individuals in a remote spot, but if a non special needs kid distracts the class they are sent to the hall or the administrator, special needs ones have none of that done most times. We have become so concerned with the bottom 10% that we don’t try to push the top 10-20% of students.

This even occurs in vocational settings (where I was mainly). If our clients (I will use that dirty word that I got chewed out for because I think consumers is a dumb name) could not do public jobs with general decorum and respect and not throw a fit, I would treat them accordingly and assign them to more remote jobs until they could meet general expectations.
 
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DPA gives formula makers priority to get the raw materials. Company hires more workers. Production increases. More inspectors speeds it up getting to consumer. Import formula.
I won't post it here as it's on their political page, but for those interested, the New York Times had on interesting column yesterday on the effect the DPA will have on the formula supply.
Pete's comments were the most telling.
 

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Trust me.. he didn’t “launch” that idea. He relayed the message.
Yes. It’s almost like the President doesn’t personally oversee and control every detail of commerce in America and every initiative from his Administration. Brilliant observation! So glad you were able to bring this cutting insight.
 
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That is interesting. My wife is a currently a post partum nurse (training on L&D in August) and she regularly has baby's in the nursery. Including the one she was holding at 3AM just before Halloween while her co-workers tried on costumes. Just can't get good help these days.
We just had a baby. There was no nursery in the baby friendly facility unless you had a premi that needed full care. On the flip side, the In laws in Ankeny had a full on nursery set up for nights to let the mom get a little rest after birth.
 
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Ok this pissed me off because I wanted to walk hallways afterward to help with recovery. Nope, covid protocol, I can't leave room. I was double vaxced, neg test prior to admission and would have worn a mask. My spouse on the other hand.....could come and go as needed! Go get lunch in the cafeteria or off site, get stuff from car....they never asked to see proof of vaccination nor did they test him!
I don’t have a good emoji for this!
 

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Todd Brady, same guy that created the vaccine finder. Its nice to actually see a politician do something that helps people rather than just make empty statements. I hope people remember all the good he's done when its voting time.
 

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Our delivery hospital is a baby-friendly one. My OB was one of the best-known in the area, and he had a big issue with the baby-friendly nature. "The mom is my patient, not the baby, and it's not good for the mom in many instances." The hospital and he ended on pretty bad terms because of his stance on that and some of their other policies.

That doesn't mean that I don't think that baby-friendly hospitals have lots of good aspects. I think there has to be a happy medium. By all means encourage breastfeeding, but don't act like it's a horrible thing if it doesn't work. Our hospital was pretty lenient - my daughter and husband had a stomach bug when our youngest was born, and I didn't sleep for a loooong time. They finally took him to the nurses' station (which they weren't supposed to do) so I could sleep.

“Baby friendly” hospitals are a joke. Speaking from experience moms are going to be tired enough after they get home and nurserys would give them that time they need to rest after what they just went through. We have gotten to the point where we leave asap after we have a baby (we try to fast track the tests etc) just because if we aren’t going to get help from the nurses, we may as well just be in our own house.
 
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Is this a joke? You know not everyone is made the same right? Some people can’t nurse
I have no idea. Is it just that minority unable to nurse that resort to these concoctions? Is a significant % of babies fed this stuff?

Edit: Google helped me out - turns out that only 1% of new humans are exclusively breast fed:

"While about 80% of babies are now breastfed at birth, by three months less than 20% are exclusively breastfed. The official recommendation is that babies are exclusively breastfed – having no infant formula or solid food at all – for six months, but in reality only 1% of babies are exclusively breastfed by this point."
 
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