Versace primavera-estate 2012, campagna pubblicitaria con Gisele Bundchen

Honestly I think the man has a point. I wholly cocnur that breast-milk is the very best food for babies. But there are many mothers who cannot breastfeed despite their intense desire to do so, and there are a lot of self-righteous Breastfeeding Nazis that make these mothers feel as if they are poisoning their children with formula or destroying all future prospects they might have had to be a Michael Jordan or an Albert Einstein. Gisele’s comment is just an example of the ignorance and insensitivity that many people reflect in their otherwise admirable campaign to advocate breast-feeding. As a mother of three, I was made to feel like an udder failure (mispelling and pun intended), because I could not produce enough milk for my babies and had to supplement and eventually replace breast-milk altogether with formula. I tried all kinds of diet suggestions and nutritional supplements supposedly designed to increase milk production, as well as consulting lactation experts, but to no avail. With my third I would try breast-feeding, (but he was a smart one and realized there was nothing coming out and so would not even waste his time latching on), then I would feed him the bottle with formula, then I would spend an hour on the pumps to squeeze out maybe 1-2 ounces if I was lucky. It became my whole existence until I finally realized I couldn’t keep it up, especially since I would shortly be returning to work. But I still felt bombarded with much grief and guilt because of the judgmental and insensitive comments from many people including my pediatrician, some of my friends, my mother, and definitely the media. Breast-feeding is the best option, but there are plenty of healthy and athletic, formula-fed valedictorians out there.