Pat, you suggested:  "Mom would be encouraged to feed her baby anywhere.
Docs would encourage moms to breastfeed." 

With great respect, I think a really bf friendly society would not encourage 
a mother to feed her baby anywhere -- there would simply be no concept that 
a mother wouldn't do this, and where ever a woman was, she would feed her 
baby, who would most likely be there with her.  And doctors -- what would 
they have to do with breastfeeding? 

Lets face it, most of our societies is going to have to change so radically 
in so many ways to become anything like breastfeeding-friendly, that we have 
to really imagine a quite different set of economic and social conditions 
and relationships. 

Or that is what I think.  At the end of my PhD, thinking about my data and 
the wider over-arching questions, I was so depressed because I could see 
that all the work I and all the volunteer and professional breastfeeding 
people have done in the UK for the past 2 decades (which is as long as I 
have been involved) doesn't really amount to a hill of beans.  Fingers in 
dykes, commanding the waves, all those kinda things... 

Magda Sachs 

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