Father criticised online for suggesting baby formula should come out of his wife’s budget
A father has been heavily criticised online after suggesting that baby formula should come out of his wife’s budget.
In a now-deleted Reddit post, the man explained that the mother has stopped breastfeeding after six months and is now switching to formula as she “feels done” despite having “plenty of milk and everything”.
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The divisive post reads, “I think if she wants to stop for basically no reason then the money for the formula should come out of her personal spending money because she is the one making the decision.”
“She says I’m an a**hole and it should come out of the family/grocery budget (which is already tight) even though I don’t have a say,” he added.
But after reading his question on the online forum, social media users were less than impressed.
One Twitter user screenshot the father’s Reddit post alongside the caption: “Take all the food out of the house and tell him to get fed on his own body”.
take all the food out of the house and tell him to get fed on his own body pic.twitter.com/WOjv0UFPTt
— endora bullshit (@collectdust) March 25, 2019
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The tweet soon amassed over 2,447 likes with fellow users criticising the dad.
Some suggested the mother switching all of the dairy products in the house to breastmilk alternatives if he wants to save money so much:
I think he could even have breastmilk cheese, breastmilk ice cream, yoghurt etc. No need to buy any dairy ever again, think of the savings!
— Anita Anderson (@Anytar) March 26, 2019
replace all the milk in the house w breast milk and tell him if he wants regular milk it comes out of his expenses
— Anaïs NIИ (@griph) March 25, 2019
While some mums points out that breastfeeding can be painful for a large number of women due to mastitis – a condition which causes a mother’s breast tissue to become inflamed.
For heavens sake. Try breastfeeding. I found it very painful.
— Tanni Grey-Thompson (@Tanni_GT) March 26, 2019
I had mastitis. Breast feeding at times felt like hot needles being stabbed into me. There were others, when I was travelling, that it was brilliant.
— Tanni Grey-Thompson (@Tanni_GT) March 26, 2019
Switch out his coffee creamer with breast milk and save tens of dollars every month.
— Wrath’s going to piggy back Chris Evans. (@Amiewriter) March 26, 2019
Others suggested that the new mum send him an invoice for the hours she’s already put into motherhood with one joking that there should be an extra charge for his gaslighting.
She should invoice him for the hours spent nursing / pumping and take that out of his budget.
— weird lex but okay (@lexsaur) March 25, 2019
+ extra charge for his gaslighting.
— Rio Scott 🌈🧜🏼♀️ (@mishaminx) March 25, 2019
What do you think?
