Disposable Diapers, Wipes and Infant Formula! - How I Did Everything Wrong

No matter what you do now-a-days, it seems like you are doing something "wrong". You decide to use disposable diapers and wipes and you're treated like the person found littering on Earth Day. Someone finds out you decided against breast-feeding, next thing you know your child is "sick" over- weight and an imbecile, or so it's been said. The beautiful thing about America is the fact that everyone has a right to their own opinion, however, just because some people may believe themselves to be more right than others doesn't give them the right to over-power someone with their own personal beliefs.

Disposable Diapers, now here's a controversial subject in it's self. Disposable Diapers are horrible for the environment, everyone and their Mother knows this to be true. And if everyone could afford to use cloth diapers, I'm sure they would, however many people cannot afford to. "What do you mean afford to use cloth diapers?" you may ask. Sure, we all know that disposable diapers cost more in the long run, anywhere between $1000 to $1500 a year. The cost I am referring to is time. A working Mom/Dad or a Single Mother/Father may not have the time to give to using cloth diapers. About 50% of marriages in the United States end in divorce, that leaves a lot of single parents out there to provide for their children. My point is, if you have the time and the resources to use cloth diapers then use them. If you don't have the time and disposable diapers are much more practical for you, that's fine too.

Infant Formula, to even utter the word may be a sin to some. Why should I feel guilty about giving my healthy, in the 75^th percentile, only been sick twice and one time was because I worked in a less than sanitary environment, son infant formula. I don't feel guilty. Formula was the best choice I had at the time for my family, and if it is the best for your family then you shouldn't feel guilty either. It's easy for others to tell you to breast- feed but the fact of the matter is they don't know your situation, so they are not entitled to judge. I was a breast fed baby, I have diabetes and I am obese. My sister was a formula fed baby, she is just slightly overweight and very healthy. Just because you breast-feed does not mean your child will be perfect and complication free. And just because you formula feed doesn't necessarily mean you will have an obese, ill stricken child either.

People have opinions, thank God for them. But everyone has the right to choose what it is they want to do. They are your child(ren), raise them the way you want them to be raised, feed them what you want to feed them and if you want to do something great for the environment and have the advantages in life to allow you to do so DO IT! And by chance if you have done everything "wrong" like me, know that you're not the only one.