Makes me wonder how we ever got through without all the gadgets these days. Our kids turned our really well!! Kind of sad.

what makes me sad too is the cost of the formulas. I have a friend who is helping to supplement the cost for her new granddaughter's formula because it's the only one the baby doesn't get gassy on and it's so expensive her parents can't really afford it.

Not everyone can breast feed.

Not everyone can breastfeed, this is true but it is sad seeing all these expensive devices for bottle-feeding on a registry, which indicates that mom isn't even willing to try.

I breastfed all 4 kids, two required supplementing with formula, one of which ended up having to go to full formula, the other only supplementing and the other two were only breastfed, but I tried with all four.

Not all but most failures to breastfeed are assisted by culture. The idea that babies need to be on schedules, shouldn't share the parents bed, need to cry, should be fed in privacy, are given pacifiers, supplemental water, early solids, spend more time in carriers that in mother's arms, all contribute to the many failures of BFing.

What happened to a breast pump.....wherever, whenever, can be bottled-up and ready to go? One doesn't even have to be able to 'breastfeed' to do this. FREE, GRATIS, NADA, ZILCH

boops....things have changed haven't they?

I heated my child's bottle in a microwave, but before that, warmed a pan of water and sat it in the pan. Seems like breast feeding should come naturally, but it isn't always easy. Nervous, over-tired moms, possibly following a C-section surgery, with no support makes it really tough. Breast feeding is so handy, especially at night, if a mom can get over the hump and into the swing of it.

Not only free and always available at the right temperature, the health benefits of breast milk are incredible!!

My friends daughter was diagnosed with MS while her early 20's and just delivered her 3rd child (against doctors recommendations). I'm guessing that for several reasons, bf wasn't a good option for her, as it isn't for many. I bf for the first few months but had to stop for health reasons as well.

Not everyone can breast feed. A colleague lived in a less developed part of Africa. She had more milk than she needed, so donated breast milk to the babies whose mothers, with no cultural impediments--the contrary actually--really couldn't nurse.

I agree about the laziness of needing a formula maker machine, unless it sterilizes, too, and the formula making is a side function.

When I speak to my friends, DD and her friends who breast feed or have breast fed exclusively each and everyone of us us has a story on how we would have quit far too soon had we listened to the advice of some uninformed doctor or nurse. For example, I was told to quit when I got a horrid case of "milk fever" (mastitis). Fortunately I had educated myself prior and knew the best thing was to continue nursing as much as possible despite the agonizing pain. Others have been told their child wasn't thriving or was colicky due to mothers milk. The health professionals are getting better but there is still a great deal of erroneous information and even old wives tales being put out there.

Mine are adopted, so, no breastfeeding. I did look into taking hormone shots to try but he doctor said no. Youngest was born failure to thrive, had to have a prescription formula. I can't fathom a machine to mix formula, crazy!

I was not able to breast feed. There was just nothing there. I did not experience " let down." I would pump for 1/2 hour and get 1/2 oz...on a good day. In those first few days my son was nearly starving because " they" made women feel like a total failure If you didn't breastfeed. This was 1984 and there had been a new movement to return to breastfeeding after falling out of fashion decades earlier.

After three days at home, I finally went to the pediatrician in tears and the kindly nurse, who had been with the dr for over 30 years, said " let's just try a small bottle of formula." My poor son gobbled it up like he had never eaten...and he really hadn't. That nurse was so kind and understanding and did not make me feel like I had failed my new baby because I couldn't breastfeed. She suggested....because I was so distraught I couldn't breastfeed like society dictated all good mothers should......that I rotate breastfeeding with a bottle. Well, that lasted for about a day and a half and I finally came to my senses. My son was enjoying the bottle.....not me.

When DD daughter was born 21 mos later I didn't even try....the bad memories were too fresh. Two years later I did try again a few times with my third....again...nothing. The silver lining was that DH could feed the baby and he did almost as many middle of the night feedings as I did.

I love this gadget. It takes the place of a bottle warmer and would have been so helpful for those nighttime, half-asleep feedings if breast feeding isn't an option.

https://www.llli.org I have been a La Leche League Leader (breastfeeding councillor) for 23 yrs. I have never liked momma wars, please let's not make this gadget become one. There are many issues young mothers today have to work through. Working vs stay at home, the family bed vs cribs, cloth diapers vs disposables, vax or not. The list is growing, this is the first time I've heard of baby blizza. We all make the best of the support and information we have. Lol my photo is of me holding my first grandchild. My daughter feared her milk wasn't coming in and her newborn was hungry. I arrived after a 3 hour flight and all was well, he nursed for a full yr. after. She grew up in the same home where I worked from and still had these fears. Laugh this gadget off.

Mommas_secrets - well said.

This makes me think of all the items I thought I needed when I married 36 years ago - lots of gadgets I never used. I'm sure the OP's niece's baby will thrive just fine with loving family whether BF or formula fed.

This time saving thing is getting out of hand, way too much laziness as it is without adding more. Does anyone do anything anymore without all these time savers or whatever they are suppose to be? Give me old school anyday

new babies, lots of stuff that "has" to be done.

My thought is that anything that makes life easier is wonderful.

I don't get it, put two scoops and 4 oz warm water and swirl it up. Don't need a fancy machine they aren't drinking a cappuccino...

Many thanks to those who responded. However, I did not intend this thread to become a breast feeding debate and hope no one has been offended.Thanks again to all the women who made the best decision they could regarding the health of their children.

So many of the new moms who are my kids' friends have their babies and go back to work in a few weeks. Some pump, but usually I think they turn to formula. Many of these women choose to go back to work because they like their careers. It is a different world, and there is more than one way to raise a baby, as many of them had learned from their own mothers' methods of raising them.

Not debating, just commenting. The State of California ensures that there is a private room for state employee nursing mothers to pump during working hours.

To blanket say that not everyone can breast feed as a rationalization for so many to not so feed is about comparable to saying some people don't have arms or legs so they can't use cloth diapers. Sure, some can't, but I think most who can, should. I also think a lot of people these days will only breast feed if it can be done via an app.