I have read studies about the health benefits of breastfeeding to combat child obesity. If mothers can breast feed until their child is at least 8 months old, their child will probably never have weight issues. Feeding a child cereals, formulas, & solid foods too soon just encourages fat cells to develop.

Everyone wants to get rid of obesity, but unfortunately, most people have to be “bribed” in some way to change a lifestyle. Getting a tax break if you buy a breast pump isn’t the answer.

Instead, there should be an “educational” media blitz campaign about breastfeeding and child obesity. This is to help future generations only. Otherwise society keeps getting fatter and fatter!

I milked a cow for four years by hand, if it was good enough for me why do women need a hand pump? Seems a bit pricey at 300 dollars. after 4 years of hand milking I finally bought a surge automatic milker for $250, though it was used.

Not sure but if these hand suction pumps cost 300 dollars and a Surge milker costs $250, I think the hand suction pump is over priced. Do they milk two breasts at one time? Though on cows we called them teats not breasts and the Surge Milker, milked all four teats at once!

You could probably purchase a used Surge Milker and separate it into four sections and sell each one for $50.00, but the compressor would cost extra.

Emily…

I wasn’t expecting a reply to my sarcastic post, but thank you anyway.  $300 is getting up there.  However, my point was that if you take the pump as a medical tax deduction, then in the 15% bracket you would save $45 and in the 25% bracket $75, which still makes the pump pretty expensive for people on limited incomes.  Better yet if a person qualifies as low income on the 1040 and breast feeding is so important, then permit the pump as a full tax credit than a deduction.

This is just plain crazy!  How much does a breast pump cost?  Can’t
you get an used one on ebay?  Anyone who needs a tax deduction to
afford a breast pump has to be in the lower tax bracket and at most
they will save only a small portion of the cost.  And if they don’t
pay any tax, then there is no savings!  Better to provide breast
pumps free to all.

Since I was breast fed until I went into the Marine Corps, after which I then reserved myself to sucking on me thumb even to this day, the reason why I only type using one hand.  Even so I am still fat, maybe mummy should have utilized a breast pump?

-A recent TruthDig story regarding Free Elections in Kosovo drew a total three comments.

-A recent story on Egypt, before massive crowds were noted in the media, drew only two comments.

Mention the Tea Party and female breasts and suddenly TruthDig regulars have an opinion.

Palin and her even scarier clone are going to attack Michelle no matter what she says or does, it’s a sad fact of life at this point.

Of bigger interest is the fact that Michelle continues to undermine all the hard work her husband is doing courting the corporations that cause all the problems she’s trying to fix. He’s meeting with Monsanto about GMO’s while she’s growing an organic garden. Do the two of them realize they are at ethical odds with each other?

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And yet both Palin and Bachman claimed to have breastfed their children. What hypocrites!
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Right-wing-nut politicians hypocrites?
Oh! The humanity!
The horror, the horror!

In Palin’s simplistic hostile world - if an Obama believes it, it must be wrong. The blind application of this oppositional tactic leads of course to the ‘reductio ad absurdum’ of denying the importance of breast feeding which is a natural and healthy maternal practice. Only if Michelle O had suggested more junk food, would Palin have been on the sane side of the argument. Childhoold obesity is a national health crisis that Michele O is rightfully addressing. If the government is going to supply schools with eatables paid for with my taxes - it better be healthy! Enough sodas and Cheetos! If the parents can’t regulate their children’s eating habits, at least the school will be one place that does.

I believe women should be allowed to breast feed in public, so what do I know? Tax breaks for pumps, maybe Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann would be okay if the pumps were womens shoes?

Tea Baggers, what say you Ozark Michael? (OM is the only known Tea Baggers who seems able to read and write).

A war on obesity, let me say this, us fat people will not take this sitting down. I would rather see a war on stupidity, but then Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann would be opposed for personal reasons.

Both of those teabagging fascists know that
corporations (ala Monsanto, Haliburton, Koch Ind. etc.)
poison the land, water and air which is absorbed by the
human body. They need strong white babies and so
advocate commercial formula and discourage
breastfeeding.

And yet both Palin and Bachman claimed to have breastfed their children. What hypocrites!

Expect every right-wing nut to now attack tax breaks for breast-feeding as “Socialism”.  Our own RWN trolls at TD will be on that band-wagon ASAP.

Imagine: In their desperate attempts to re-establish White Protestants as dominant in America they’ve now come out against….Mother’s Milk!

“Tea Party” is nothing more than a euphemistic term for white, right-wing, fundamentalist christian bigotry!

It may well be that high obesity rates are more related to the consumption of GMO’s,
and HFCS, than a lack of nursing. Though nursing is much better for infants, than
formula filled with GMO soy.

I would propose Instead you ask that husband of yours to fire Tom Vilsack, for being in
bed with Monsanto. That would be much more productive.