re: OMG, electric breast pump $12.99!!!!

Quoting MamaBot {EBFB}:“ Well...I am happy with it, but it was used. Very. So it's kind of weak now. I still get 6 oz out, easy, ... [snip!] ... some extent. Really? Ugh. I don't think it's anti-feminist to be a SAHM, but then, that's probably because I am one right now.”

Well actually my milk has gone down a lot so I only get 1.5-4 ounces a pumping. My milk supply was the strongest between 5 and 7 months- _ would get 7-8 ounces a pumping. The reason my milk supply is lower is just the natural progression towards the weaning stage. My son is over 9 months and he only really enjoys nursing during the morning session or if he is very overtired. I only nurse him 2-3 times per day and he gets two bottles of pumped milk while I am at work. I assume this pattern will continue until his first birthday. I really want to wean him off bottles first. He loves bottles right now so that is not even close to a reality. After he is done with bottles, I would like to continue 2-3 nursings after his first birthday for some months and then just do his morning nursing, which he loves the most.

heh, the part I thought was BS you think is true. But those bits you mentioned were also bs. But she frames the "debate" all wrong: there is no debate, there's no way that formula and BFing in any way compete. You didn't think it was well-written/compelling? I did. If I'd been a little younger and dumber, I would have read that and thought, "Yeah! What's the difference? I'll nurse him so he gets the colostrum, but after that, look how much easier formula is!"...I swear I try my hardest not to think that now.

For me breastfeeding hurts sometimes. It never did for you?

Quoting MamaBot {EBFB}:“ heh, the part I thought was BS you think is true. But those bits you mentioned were also bs. But she ... [snip!] ... formula is!"...I swear I try my hardest not to think that now. For me breastfeeding hurts sometimes. It never did for you?”

She is an excellent writer, no doubt. Her writing style is captive and interesting. I think also, I wouldn't have even needed that article to give me push not to breastfeed. I have a major phobia of milk. I used to be so bad that I would ban it from my house and forbid family and friends to drink it around me, controlling huh? I am still that way about mayo but I lighten up on the milk. I do believe when I was 19 I told my mom 1. I would never have kids 2. It would be a cold day in hell that I would even think about breastfeeding. I guess at that time I thought it was weird and gross. Good thing I grew up before I had kids. 
As far as pain, I have never experienced pain except a few times when I had a yeast infection and was using my pump. But breastfeeding never hurt. My son never had a lazy latch and I think partly I just don't have much sensitivity in my nipples. If I pinch them I can't feel much of anything at all. Bad/lazy latches are what causes pain for most. It also over time can decrease milk supply. I also always used a salve to make sure they didn't get chapped. A few times I caught them looking dry but that was it. You can even use olive oil or any salve and you don't even have to wipe it off before you nurse.