Hi Magda
I really enjoy your posts.  You wrote,  "One of the greatest secrets about
breastfeeding is that it is a source of complex and contradictory emotions
for women, that can be an important part of their live experience ...
However, we continue to present breastfeeding as a health behaviour,
discouraging women from considering its other meanings in their lives."  I
have only just begun to think of breastfeeding as health behaviour and I see
some benefit in doing so when talking with government and policy-makers (to
say nothing of securing elusive research grants!).  Yet, your comments about
the layers of meaning that are (or can be) attached to breastfeeding
resonate deeply with me (and with my convictions about the power of
advertising in a mass mediated society).  Do you think breastfeeding can be
both of these things; a symbolic action/ performance *and* a health
behaviour?
Nina Berry BA/Bed(Hons) Dip Arts(Phil)
Breastfeeding Counsellor
PhD Candidate - "Ethical Issues in the marketing of 'Toddler Milks'"

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