When we met Katie Connolly, she was weeks away from meeting her newborn son. Her nursery was ready, but one critical choice hung over her head.
When we met Katie Connolly, she was weeks away from meeting her newborn son. Her nursery was ready, but one critical choice hung over her head.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this had something to do with RFK Jr.’s obsession with breastfeeding. Destroy faith in formula via incompetence to force women to do it. To them, it’s another form of control.
Here’s the thing - breastfeeding is healthy and great. Not every woman can do it. My wife had a physical issue that prevented the babies from latching and she tried her damnedest. My own mother spoke about how excruciatingly painful it was.
Without safe formula, babies will die.
Suffering is their goal.
And with the way capitalism disciplines labour, especially in the dystopia that is the US, breastfeeding is turned into a dilemma for working class mothers who are squeezed out of the “privilege” of taking breaks to feed their kid. So it becomes yet another attack on women’s rights, pushing mothers to stay home. If they really were serious about giving every mother who wants it the opportunity to breastfeed they should offer proper paid parental leave for everyone. And of course formula should be uncontroversially safe and available to all who choose it.