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Re: Extreme Parenting -according to TIME
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Originally Posted by Dordrecht
I thought you were talking about the men in your church.
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No, not at all. 
Funny how people associate these ideas with conservative church culture. In my experience, church people have been more likely to see this as taboo and make [IMO, unhealthy] choices to formula-feed because they feel breastfeeding is inappropriate or distasteful. I've NEVER known a conservative Apostolic woman who breastfeed past the age of 3 or 4 [max].
When we lived in Louisiana, I was surprised at the number of Apostolic women who didn't even consider natural birthing methods or breastfeeding. It was pain meds and formula-fed all the way. I'm not knocking it necessarily, because sometimes those choices are necessary, but the latter in particular is not the best choice for a baby. Sometimes necessary or preferable, but definitely the inferior choice from a purely nutritional perspective.
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abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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