We Need More Photos of Moms Who Bottle Feed
Celebrating All The Ways Our Community Feeds Their Babies
by (nsfmg)
Last week on Mom Group, after a prompt from an email via an Anonymous Poster, we realized we need to be more inclusive of parents who bottle feed in our imagery. Our community strives to celebrate all the ways that we feed our babies -- and to use imagery that reflects the values of its members. And it is true -- if we don't also include images of babies drinking from bottles (whether its formula or pumped milk, or a combination) -- we are not fully representing our community. A request for *personal photos was met with an enthusiastic response, as well as messages from moms who expressed why they don't have many (or any) photos of their babies with their bottles. See the quotes, and click through the gallery below to see some adorable (nsfmg) babies and their parents connecting and bonding during feedings.
"I never took a photo of my baby bottle-feeding because I was embarrassed! I’d make sure there were no bottles/formula ect. in EVERY photo." - C.
"It’s crazy that I only have one or two pics of me feeding my daughter. I don’t have pics of anyone feeding her really. I remember feeling very self-conscious that she was drinking formula. - M.
"This series has made me realize that I have almost no photos of me bottle feeding my daughter when she was a baby. Like . . . 3 photos. There are probably more somewhere (maybe my husband took some?) but I don’t know where/don’t really have access to them." - M.
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"Juliette was in special care nursery for 2.5 weeks and she could eat on her own and she had a hard time breastfeeding. . . For my own health and hers, I wish we would have switched earlier." - A. -
Image by Grace Stackhouse. - S. -
"I loved watching my husband feed our baby!" -A. -
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"Proud formula mom here. It saved me." - @thoroughlymodern -
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"My sweet wife at 3am. All moms should feed their babies, so we made the conscious choice to give bottle feeds, so she could have that experience for her Motherhood." - C. -
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"I pump a bottle so that they can have that bonding experience . . . It's a beautiful thing." - S. -
"Last time she took the bottle before she got a supply cup on her second birthday.." - J. -
"My babies transitioned back to formula later on. . . it doesn't have to be all or nothing." - L. -
This is my husband in the first few months . . . feeding pumped milk." - M. -
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"Here is one when my girl was 2 weeks old, and gobbling up the last drops of her bottle." - Jill (Photo by Christina McKinney.) -
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"Although we breastfeed now, it doesn't have to be one or the other." - A. -
"It’s crazy that I only have one or two pics of me feeding my daughter . . . I remember feeling very self conscious that she was drinking formula." - M.