Super cool concept, needs to come down a LOT in price!

I breastfed both my babies for 7 months or so and CHOSE to switch to formula at that point because I was just tired of having my gigantic boobs out all over town. No medical reasons. No supply issues. I could have fed the entire neighborhood with my overabundant bounty. I JUST DIDN’T WANT TO. I wish that more women were brave enough to say that.

As for the original question: This machine is absolutely ridiculous and I love it! I’d buy it in a heartbeat

I tried desperately to breastfeed as other commenters mentioned. I tried desperately to pump, but my baby never let me put her down and I could only pump 10 minutes listening to her scream hysterically to be picked up – never the amount of time the lactation nurses told me I needed to pump in order to get my supply up.

but I generally hate using that as an excuse. Because it sounds like I think I’m better for trying than those who chose not to try.

I would hope that every woman has the opportunity to look down at their baby feeding and feel overwhelming love and kiss their head, their toes and (my personal favorite) the bridge of my baby’s nose. Use a boob or use a bottle, but hold them as often as possible – even if they’re holding their own bottle. Because they’re only that small for a short time.

As someone sitting here at 4am tethered to a pump because my son can’t get the hang of breastfeeding (despite seeing near on a dozen lactation consultants and trying every trick in the book for the past 3 months), I think this gadget is awesome!

The comments that say, why not just breastfeed, must come from lucky people who never had to go through the frustration of not being able to. I can tell you, it would be a LOT easier to just breastfeed than do formula or pumping.

So far I am lucky to be able to provide with a pump, but that is not true for many women whose babies can’t BF — and I have no idea whether I’ll be able to sustain supply this way myself. It’s hard enough to deal with the daily logistics of bottle feeding without such negative comments.

Thanks for the post Rookie Moms!

My comment was on this specific product. I did not say anything against those families and parents who need or choose to use formula, I was simply giving my reaction to this specific product. Which, again, seems ridiculous to me.

If it makes someone’s life easier and is worth the $, by all means, go for it! Breast or formula, it doesn’t matter so long as the child is fed.

And now that my dreams of nursing my son for 2yrs, then nursing an adopted child is long gone – I may ask for this when our adopted child does come along

Find a conversation where you can actually contribute in a positive way.

If you don’t think that you can try to preserve breastfeeding and encourage it without alienating the families who use formula, you have a problem that I don’t have an answer for. And that isn’t a problem that I have – nowhere have I said that it isn’t okay to preserve breastfeeding. I suggested it was wrong to vilify families who use formula.

Hate the game, not the player. Hate on Nestle for marketing inappropriately (I sure do). But don’t hate on the families. Don’t hate on the individuals who would find this useful.

“Think of the resources and energy used to make those tiny plastic cups” — okay, so do you live in a glass house? What resources and energy do you take up that someone else might find frivolous? I can’t imagine that the answer is none — everyone has their line, and this is yours, but that doesn’t mean that a woman who formula feeds or who would find this useful deserves your ire or disgust.