Out of the mouths of babes!!!!
Many of will not live to see the time when breastfeeding is
completelly accepted as the norm, but our children and their
children will reap the benefits of the advocacy we do today.  When
my daughter was about the same age and had been going to LLL
meetings with me for as many years, we were in the grocery store one
day and she saw a mom with a lot of formula in her basket.  She said
to me, rather loudly, "Mommy, why is that woman buying that awful
stuff for her baby?  Why doesn't she just jurse?"


I may have told this story before, if so forgive me the repetition:
Many years ago when mine were very little, we were visiting with a
single firend who lived in a large apartment building.  As we were
walking down the hall with her to her apartment, she met one of her
neighbor's in the hall with a new baby.  We chatted briefly and went
on our way.  I thought of asking "the question", but wasn't as
forthright at that time as I would be today.  Later my friend
mentioned that the mom had tried to nurse, but quit because she
"didn't have enough".  I told my friend to have the mom call me if
she was interested in going back to nursing as I might be able to
give her some suggestions and yes, that could be done.  That mom
never contacted me, but more than 10 years later, my friend had
moved away and we had only occasional contact.  She had had a baby
and one time when she was back in town, she told me that she had
breastfed the first few weeks, quit for some unnecessary reason, but
remembered my comment of many years ago and on her own resumed
nursing!
We never know when some of the seeds we plant will take root and
grow.  I often think of this story when I am frustrated that I don't
seem to be making any headway.  Who knows if someone, at some future
time, will benefit from something we say today.

Winnie

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