**Note: if you are a fellow CAB gal, please note I am NOT referring to you ladies**
Long ago I was on a Mommy message board.
A heated debate started about something very simple......
a bottle.
Yes just a bottle. Nothing more.
Here is the nasty culprit.
It looks terribly damaging doesn't it?
The debate was simply on whether or not it was "good parenting" to use said bottle.
Several people felt that if you used a bottle like that you were "lazy" and some went as far as saying something to the effect of "if you can't hold your baby to feed them, you shouldn't be having babies." (note: this is not quoted word for word but that was the gist of it.)
HARSH.
Then the topic got onto bottle propping and all Hell broke loose.
Now I am all for bonding, holding, loving and nurturing your baby. I "slung" Makily and have "slung" J since he came home with us. Makily co-slept in our room for a long time. J would have too if it would have been allowed but in the world of fostering it is STRONGLY advised that you are NOT to co-sleep with an infant (in fact I do believe some states require you to sign a form promising not to). I think that breastfeeding is best and I feel like every mother should at least try to do it. On the other hand I will be the last person to ridicule you if you don't breastfeed or are not comfortable at least trying. Some mother's CAN'T BREAST FEED. I am one of them. I tried, Makily had serious medical problems and it just wasn't happening. I pumped for two months and wanted to do it for a year. My mental health was suffering greatly though. I was in a deep depression over Makily's diagnosis and had I not started taking medication I would have ended up in a crisis situation. The pedi (whom by the way also strongly advocates for breastfeeding) and myself BOTH agreed that Makily had enough problems and because they don't really have enough studies on how much certain medications are secreted in breast milk we decided I needed to stop pumping. I cried my eyes out over it and felt incredibly guilty. My point here is to not judge someone's parenting when you have not walked about 20 miles in their shoes.
I am getting off topic aren't I?
ANYWAY!
I think the Podee bottle is great for MANY situations. Situations that I have found myself in MANY times since J coming to live with us. Makily has therapy 2-3 times a week. She is back in school AND we have various appointments in Orlando, that's a one way hour and a half trip. It is GREAT for when you are in the car. I know it was suggested on the "other board" that if you are in the car and it's time for baby to eat, that you should pull over on the side of the road to feed your baby. I am sorry but that not only is ridiculous as half the time I am running like a crazy person to this or that appointment but it's dangerous too. People drive like maniacs and sitting on the side of I-4 or I-75 just does not sound like a good idea to me...but I digress.
When Makily is at therapy I put J in the sling and tuck the Podee bottle in with him. I can help Makily in therapy AND STILL hold/feed J at the same time.
At night J has a terrible time lately going to sleep. He will fall asleep in my arms, rocking with a bottle but AS SOON as I lay him down and the nipple comes out of his mouth.....he wakes up.
Now I rock him and use the Podee at night. When I lay him down he still has the nipple in his mouth and does not wake up. I give him 10 or 15 minutes then I go in and take it out of the crib. This has worked like a charm for us.
We have gotten so many positive comments on the Podee when we are out and about. EVERYONE wants to know where I got it and how they can get one. I have not had one person ridicule me for using it. Can you imagine the benefit of this bottle for mom's of multiples?
All this being said I don't think it would be a good thing to use this bottle and never hold your child to feed them. As a mother of a child that has never eaten by mouth and now a mother of a child that does.....I CAN'T TELL YOU what a bonding experience it is to feed your baby. There are times I am feeding J that I get a lump in my throat. He is so sweet and trusting. We use the Podee for night night feeds and for when we are in the car. During the day at the house we only use Platex Drop In bottles because we know he needs to learn to hold his bottle. If he has the Podee all day he would seriously crawl around the house dragging it with the nipple in his mouth (he tried that and we took it away but it was a hilarious site!).
So to all you busy mom's out there who don't want to pull over on the side of the road to feed baby, this is a GREAT tool. I honestly felt guilty at first when I bought it (because of all the past negative comments I had heard) but totally got over myself when I saw how much J liked it and how handy it came in sometimes.
Podee bottle?
TWO THUMBS UP!
*note: It took me FOREVER to get that picture right with the disguise!*
Long ago I was on a Mommy message board.
A heated debate started about something very simple......
a bottle.
Yes just a bottle. Nothing more.
Here is the nasty culprit.
It looks terribly damaging doesn't it?
The debate was simply on whether or not it was "good parenting" to use said bottle.
Several people felt that if you used a bottle like that you were "lazy" and some went as far as saying something to the effect of "if you can't hold your baby to feed them, you shouldn't be having babies." (note: this is not quoted word for word but that was the gist of it.)
HARSH.
Then the topic got onto bottle propping and all Hell broke loose.
Now I am all for bonding, holding, loving and nurturing your baby. I "slung" Makily and have "slung" J since he came home with us. Makily co-slept in our room for a long time. J would have too if it would have been allowed but in the world of fostering it is STRONGLY advised that you are NOT to co-sleep with an infant (in fact I do believe some states require you to sign a form promising not to). I think that breastfeeding is best and I feel like every mother should at least try to do it. On the other hand I will be the last person to ridicule you if you don't breastfeed or are not comfortable at least trying. Some mother's CAN'T BREAST FEED. I am one of them. I tried, Makily had serious medical problems and it just wasn't happening. I pumped for two months and wanted to do it for a year. My mental health was suffering greatly though. I was in a deep depression over Makily's diagnosis and had I not started taking medication I would have ended up in a crisis situation. The pedi (whom by the way also strongly advocates for breastfeeding) and myself BOTH agreed that Makily had enough problems and because they don't really have enough studies on how much certain medications are secreted in breast milk we decided I needed to stop pumping. I cried my eyes out over it and felt incredibly guilty. My point here is to not judge someone's parenting when you have not walked about 20 miles in their shoes.
I am getting off topic aren't I?
ANYWAY!
I think the Podee bottle is great for MANY situations. Situations that I have found myself in MANY times since J coming to live with us. Makily has therapy 2-3 times a week. She is back in school AND we have various appointments in Orlando, that's a one way hour and a half trip. It is GREAT for when you are in the car. I know it was suggested on the "other board" that if you are in the car and it's time for baby to eat, that you should pull over on the side of the road to feed your baby. I am sorry but that not only is ridiculous as half the time I am running like a crazy person to this or that appointment but it's dangerous too. People drive like maniacs and sitting on the side of I-4 or I-75 just does not sound like a good idea to me...but I digress.
When Makily is at therapy I put J in the sling and tuck the Podee bottle in with him. I can help Makily in therapy AND STILL hold/feed J at the same time.
At night J has a terrible time lately going to sleep. He will fall asleep in my arms, rocking with a bottle but AS SOON as I lay him down and the nipple comes out of his mouth.....he wakes up.
Now I rock him and use the Podee at night. When I lay him down he still has the nipple in his mouth and does not wake up. I give him 10 or 15 minutes then I go in and take it out of the crib. This has worked like a charm for us.
We have gotten so many positive comments on the Podee when we are out and about. EVERYONE wants to know where I got it and how they can get one. I have not had one person ridicule me for using it. Can you imagine the benefit of this bottle for mom's of multiples?
All this being said I don't think it would be a good thing to use this bottle and never hold your child to feed them. As a mother of a child that has never eaten by mouth and now a mother of a child that does.....I CAN'T TELL YOU what a bonding experience it is to feed your baby. There are times I am feeding J that I get a lump in my throat. He is so sweet and trusting. We use the Podee for night night feeds and for when we are in the car. During the day at the house we only use Platex Drop In bottles because we know he needs to learn to hold his bottle. If he has the Podee all day he would seriously crawl around the house dragging it with the nipple in his mouth (he tried that and we took it away but it was a hilarious site!).
So to all you busy mom's out there who don't want to pull over on the side of the road to feed baby, this is a GREAT tool. I honestly felt guilty at first when I bought it (because of all the past negative comments I had heard) but totally got over myself when I saw how much J liked it and how handy it came in sometimes.
Podee bottle?
TWO THUMBS UP!
*note: It took me FOREVER to get that picture right with the disguise!*
