Soapbox

I feel like getting on my soapbox. This pregnancy is totally different than when I was pregnant with Logan. I seem to have a very short fuse. Some things are ticking me off and I want to get them off my chest.

1. It seems that the more I read on certain web sites, they look down on women who have c-sections. This, to my knowledge isn't elective surgery. There are good medical reasons for having them. My reason was, lets just say, very necessary for the health of the both of us. And if my doctor, who knows me, in this area, better than anyone else, says to have another, then I will have another. Look down on me if you want. I want a healthy baby and to be around to enjoy my daughter.

2. Breastfeeding. Everywhere you turn you're looked down on if you don't breastfeed. Yes, I've heard all the reasons to breastfeed. I also know my body. I can't. It's not that I don't want to, I physically can't. I have no choice but to bottle feed. My son was a bottle fed baby and he is so smart that he makes me feel stupid. He's healthy. He is not suffering from being bottle fed. He wasn't deprived in any way.

I just wish certain "experts" would give unbiased opinions, not their own opinion. I do not look down on a woman that wishes to go through labor without drugs, so don't look down on me because I choose to listen to my doctor. I don't look down on women who breastfeed. I think that is great! God has given them that and I haven't been given that, so don't talk to me like I'm ignorant, or a bad mother.

Whew! I feel better.