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http://www.babble.com/content/articles/features/dispatches/ingall/
Take a look at the comments too.
"When my daughter Josie was a few weeks old, I started going to a support
group for new moms. Most of us looked like we hadn't slept since the Carter
administration. Epic tales were sung of colicky infants, dread about
returning to work, exhaustion so severe it caused hallucinations. (I
personally remember watching the bathroom rug crawl across the floor like a
flattened Muppet.) Many of us cried over our struggles with breastfeeding:
Plugged milk ducts, engorgement, nipples so thrashed and bloody they looked
like raw hamburger, babies who couldn't latch on and kept losing weight. But
some group members, those who'd had no problems nursing, kept insisting that
we simply needed to try harder. Call a different lactation consultant. Use
nipple cream. Butch up. Didn't we want what was best for our babies?
Exclusive breastfeeding is tough, and the temptation to give up is strong.
Formula companies pimp their products, tucking bottles into the going-home
bags of brand-new moms as they're released from the hospital, sending
coupons to their homes, sponsoring medical guides and filling parenting
magazines with ads. But breastfeeding advocates push hard too. Think of last
year's public health campaign that compared not-breastfeeding to riding a
mechanical bull while pregnant. In my ultrasound doc's office, there was a
big poster headlined "THE TOP 12 REASONS TO BREASTFEED." The reasons
included "Your baby will be smarter" and "You will lose weight faster."
Well, look, there's little doubt that breast is best, if you can manage it."
Janet Hoover, IBCLC
Santa Cruz, CA USA
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