Love this article!
"Saying that, 'I inclusively breastfeed" is so much more positive and empowering than saying, "I have low supply and need to supplement."" 
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I just saw this on Kellymom's Facebook page! Love it!
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This is great!!!
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@twodoghouse: me too and I love it. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to start supplementing when I go back to work if not sooner because my LO has been slow to gain weight .
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Like!
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i never knew what to say. I pumped, I gave formula, but I didn't BF. What a mess
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Ha, love it! I had no good name for the huge mess that was our breastfeeding experience.
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Thanks for sharing, I needed this today!! I'm currently attached to my pump doing a power pumping session to get anything I can for LO. We have another weight check Monday and I'm dreading it. This article made me feel so much better
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Personally speaking I have no qualms about saying I have low supply and needed to supplement. It's the truth.
I just wished some would understand that not every body is able to produce what a specific baby needs despite their best efforts. It's a luxury if you do.
I supplemented about a bottle a day, I wohm full time, I pumped for 13 months and nursed for 2 years and I'm damn proud of that.
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This is making me cry, lol. It's been a hard week-- just found out lo isn't gaining enough and my supply is too low-- so this was perfectly timed!
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Thanks for sharing this! I had a low supply and had to suppliment at 6 months, by 9 months LO weaned himself off the boob
and was on all formula. It was a bit of an agonizing process, but I'm still proud I gave him all the milk I had!
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@locavore_mom : you go girl!
I love this article too... I'm reading this during my nightly pump session to maintain my supply. It sucks having to wake up in the middle of the night to pump but as I look over at my sleeping angel, it's all worth it!
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I know I'm in the minority, but I don't find it empowering at all. Is formula so shameful that we need to develop a term so that we don't have to say it? I think it is more empowering to take pride in however you nourish your child, whether it be by EBF, EPing, supplementing, or formula feeding. I don't feel the need to sugarcoat my need to supplement so that others don't look down on me. That is empowerment. This, in my opinion, just further encourages formula shaming.
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@rahlyrah: I agree.
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I love it! We had a breastfeeding relationship that included supplementing, EPing, and periods of just nursing and I think inclusive feeding is a great way to think of it!
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@locavore_mama: @rahlyrah: +1000000
It makes me sad that can't say with pride that we supplement ... We are lovingly nourishing our babies and that is the #1 most important thing.
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i am with those who don't think it is empowering. I actually EBF and i never felt the need to say i am "exclusively" BFing, and if i had to supplement, i wouldn't feel the need to say "inclusive".
I just say I breast feed if people ask and never think to elaborate. And perhaps if I had to or chose to give formula, I would have said "i breastfeed and give formula". end of story.
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I think it's fine if you're feeling particularly bad about your situation and need to feel better... but this is me (I breastfeed, pump and feed pumped milk, and also supplement with formula because of low supply)... and I don't feel bad about it. If anything I feel like I'm proud that I'm sticking with breastfeeding and pumping despite it being a total PITA since I have to supplement anyways.
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Call it whatever you want- but nobody should ever be made to feel ashamed over how they feed their child. I absolutely hate that society makes both feeding types feel so defensive.
One of my sons was supplemented, the other was not- I'm equally proud of how both have thrived.
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@rahlyrah: agreed. It doesn't come off as a supportive term.
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if someone told me they were inclusively breastfeeding, I would have no idea what they meant. I get why the idea seems like a decent one, but at the same time, I can see how it's making it more difficult to just say you supplement.
if someone said they inclusively formula feed, I would also be confused.
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@rahlyrah: @californiadreams: Agreed.
I EBF and I think there shouldn't be judgement on either side, period. I don't think saying "inclusively breastfeeding" helps this issue either. It seems as though someone should feel "ashamed" to say that they FF and that makes me sad.
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I think anyone who feeds their baby any amount of breastmilk should just say they are breastfeeding! It makes no difference to me.
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@rahlyrah: I agree!
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I posted this because the article was written by a mother who came up with this term for herself. It empowered her, and she felt that it was more positive. That is a beautiful thing.
If you don't want to use it to describe your own journey than you don't have to, but I certainly don't think we should put down a term that some mothers want to embrace. Several moms who originally commented that they loved the term might now feel ashamed to use it because of the negative reaction.
I didn't find the least bit of "formula shaming" in the article. It was a celebration of feeding babies.
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@Arden: I see that some people shared their positive responses to the article, and others shared their negative responses. That's fair.
If the author feels empowered by her new term and others want to take it on, then that's great. The term does seem like it would more confusing though. If this ends up being my situation and someone asked about it, I'd echo what I've heard my best friend say, "We do a little of everything, and that works for us!"
i never knew what to say. I pumped, I gave formula, but I didn't BF. What a mess
and was on all formula. It was a bit of an agonizing process, but I'm still proud I gave him all the milk I had!
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