Mary Kay, congratulations for speaking up!

It *is* a common thing, but that doesn't mean it has to be. I'm not a big
movie-goer, but I'd venture to guess that we don't see cigarettes hanging
out of the mouths of Julia Roberts or Richard Geer the way we did with
Lauren Bacall or Humphrey Bogart. It's just a symbol that is supposed to
bring some character trait or concept to mind. But is that the message we
want to give? Nothing changes until someone objects, which you did!

(I'm going to see Runaway Bride with my beloved husband this weekend....)


>In my "other" life I am on the Board of Trustees for the local public
>library district and I had a disturbing moment last night at our
>meeting. I may have handled it wrong but I know some of you can provide
>some ideas for me. Our new computer system was quite complex and we
>closed the library for a week to install it. I saw a copy of the poster
>that was used to announce this and it was done as a baby announcement
>with a large bottle on it! Well, I spoke up and got my head bit off by
>the director and several other board members! They said "oh it's such a
>common thing, every knows it's "just a symbol", blah, blah." My response
>was that we are trying to change that attitude and it is obviously very
>difficult for me to understand. So I'm in deep water here and need to
>have some very rational ideas. It got so heated for a minute that the
>president of the board just told me to drop it - even though I was not
>the one who was heated up! Any thoughts, fellow supporters of
>breastfeeding?
>Mary Kay Smith, IBCLC
>Romeoville, IL near Chicago
>

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Marie Biancuzzo
Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist
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Resources to simplify breastfeeding management are available at
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