The Balanced Barefooter

I’m really starting to feel bad about how hard it’s getting for them to understand what I want…they’ve never had a client like me before, and they don’t know what to do!

Two things have happened in the past couple of weeks that have resulted drama and almost-drama respectively because they don’t get me. Actually three. First, they gave me inaccurate/incomplete information about my lab results. They were complaining about my hemoglobin…I looked it up and my hemoglobin was fine…so I asked why it concerned them, what they were basing their judgments and recommendations on, sent them a PDF of the study I’d found that said slightly lower hemoglobin was associated with healthier babies…

HOLY CRAP. They hated me for that.

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*GASP*

I said Black Panther was racist! That’s the most racist thing ever! I must hate black people!

Well, let’s back up and talk about the good stuff first, the I’ll get into how the movie treated white people and what I think of that.

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I may have gotten into trouble with some Facebook friends yesterday…

You see, I got something in the mail that I didn’t appreciate very much, and I complained about it.

Formula samples.

And I think some people thought I was bashing formula, or bashing moms who can’t breastfeed, or something like that. I wasn’t. The subject of my irritation was the companies who market it to vulnerable new moms, swaying them away from what could be one of the greatest gifts of motherhood – breastfeeding.

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