Great post, Morgan...I'd add that the emotional connection to risk 
those mothers who do use formula is also clear the other  way round. 
That is,  mothers who used formula (often when help and support with 
breastfeeding was not available, or else was poor, or actually ended 
up sabotaging the bf) resist very much the notion that this put their 
babies at risk of anything. They decide not to believe that  formula 
is in any way  'risky' and instead, become angry, not at the system 
(or individual workers) who sabotaged their bf, but at people  who 
help other women to breastfeed or who point out the way health is 
affected by infant feeding.  They can be angry to the point of 
abusiveness and accuse breastfeeding supporters of 'making them  feel 
guilty'.

Some of these women may have unresolved issues of grief, and their 
anger is a form of emotional connection to risk.

Heather Welford Neil

NCT bfc, tutor

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