Reading the messages over the last few days entitled Lament, while I
wholeheartedly add my own lament to those of my colleagues, I'm concerned
about the way the possible solutions are being framed. When we write about
helping "families" meet their own "goals", what do we mean exactly?

Presumably if families were not already happy about using donor human milk
and/or providing breastmilk by bottle they would call for change, but
they're strangely silent on the topic.  We are the ones who - because of
our knowledge - recognize that breastfeeding itself is becoming an
endangered practice.  What "goals" are we really wanting to "support"?  Do
we actually want to support something else?  If so, what?

I've spent years poring over UN documents which apparently "support" what
is termed "infant and young child feeding".  Presumably we don't support
withholding food from infants and young children, but - when definitions
are everything -  you see what a nonsense this politically correct language
is becoming?

Are we becoming afraid to say the word "breastfeeding" in case it upsets
someone?

Pamela Morrison IBCLC
Rustington, England

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