Formula For Disaster

i wish i were still in college - writing, researching, shooting, and editing investigative pieces such as this.

i wish that breastfeeding in the philippines will be encourged by more moms and doctors, as much as it is here.

... but having felt the pressure to do so isn't a great, positive experience. when it was my turn, i felt like a bad mother for not being able to do it for amori, and it took me a great deal of time to get past it. (heck, i even went as far as asking/telling the hospital nurses that maybe i had plugged ducts that's why the milk couldn't get out - insane, i know... i laugh at it now but it wasn't so funny at that time!) but at the end of the day, amori's weight gain was still the priority, whether it was by formula or breastmilk (so i still made pilit and did both for a while LOL).

so i still say breastfeeding is the best if you've got milk!

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since i'm posting about breastfeeding, i just had to mention... aldo and i were watching Without A Trace last night, and it was about a filipina nanny accused of kidnapping/murdering an infant. in the end, it was the baby's mom that accidentally killed the baby - she was breastfeeding the baby in bed and suffocated the poor child. the mom was too drugged (anti-depressants for post-partum depression) to realize she killed her child (which is too dramatic already - i think any mom would have woken up at one point!). the father of the baby then tried to cover-up the accident by giving the filipina nanny a wad of cash, telling her to disappear so that the mom would not realize she killed her own baby.

yes, another reason to typecast filipinos as nannies. (i was once asked by a local why most filipinas here are nannies. i couldn't give a concrete reason why. why nga ba?)