| Nowadays, there is so much worry surrounding the | | | | night. Studies have come out both supporting and |
| conception, arrival and upbringing of a child. Childbirth | | | | condemning the method. Personally, I think that it |
| has become an extremely complicated process | | | | would be a lousy idea to start neglecting your child at |
| where it could cost upwards of fifteen thousand | | | | the very beginning. There are times in the parents' |
| dollars to have a baby in a hospital. That is of course, | | | | lives where their child will feel unloved because of how |
| if you don't have insurance. The Boulder Hospital | | | | busy the parents become, but it shouldn't start during |
| charges around that much to have your child there. | | | | infancy. Why start the pattern at an early stage |
| Of course, it is very important to keep the mother as | | | | when you should be letting your child know that you'll |
| comfortable as possible when she's going through the | | | | be there for them no matter what? |
| pain of pregnancy. The safety precautions that | | | | Another popular argument is whether breastfeeding is |
| doctors and hospitals take these days are admirable in | | | | a better alternative to formula or other forms of |
| the United States, but it only makes your mind wander | | | | nourishment. Again, studies have shown that both |
| to less fortunate countries where they are having their | | | | have their advantages. It's generally agreed upon that |
| children without sanitized equipment, clean water, or | | | | the child and the mother become closer because of |
| even a doctor to watch over the mother if something | | | | the act of breastfeeding, but it's unclear if the baby or |
| goes wrong. Fifteen thousand dollars seems like a | | | | the mother is feeling this attachment. I think that both |
| little too much now since it could save many lives in | | | | forms are acceptable as long as it is being done |
| less fortunate countries. | | | | right. Warm formula in a bottle feels almost the same |
| But after the child is born, there are still thousands of | | | | as the real thing, but it is still a substitute. I guess the |
| books to choose from telling the parent's how to raise | | | | safe bet is to breastfeed the child since that is the |
| their child. There's always the argument of whether | | | | natural way to do it. We don't realize in our jaded |
| the child should be allowed to cry itself to sleep or if | | | | world that children are still fragile and innocent. Maybe |
| the parents should comfort them when they cry at | | | | we should keep them that way for as long as possible. |