>Can you imagine a breastfeeding promotion campaign along these lines?  "If
>you don't breastfeed, your child will die, and you will go to hell."
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>Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D.                         email: [log in to unmask]
>Anthropology Department                               phone: (409) 845-5256
>Texas A&M University                                    fax: (409) 845-4070
>College Station, TX  77843-4352
1)guilt>
Thank you Kathleen for listing the words to the Crash Dummies ditty.

It is tragic when children die or are harmed, especially when avoidable.

AND I have often wondered why breastfeeding advocates even *buy into* a
notion that giving accurate information is guilt producing.

Different levels of health(mental and physical) are simply delivered from
the differing methods of infant feeding.

The information may induce feelings of guilt, but the person giving facts is
not the person inflicting the guilt. I think that the person internalizing
the guilty feelings is guilt tripping themselves.

So, a healthy thing to do, seems to me anyway, is to go for the *gold* - or
yellow colostrum, as is - and all that follows, and let people feel their
feelings based on there own experiences.

Recently I was *chided* for telling facts because many mothers, stastically
speaking, may be reluctant to breastfeed because they are victims of sexual
abuse.

It seems to me that working through those feelings while nurturing an infant
would be very beneficial for all concerned.

2)continuing education

Does any one have a good website reference where I can find listings of
upcoming conferences...particulary the SF bay or Sacramento CA areas?

3)
A mom called me who is experiencing repeat infection in her Montgomery
galnds. One at a time but changing glands, one clears then another will get
a lump then hottness. She mention using, small dab, of alcohol. But we both
agreed that's drying.

Mom has been pumping for baby for almost three months now. He is a Downs
Baby nurses sporadically, and sometime ineffectively. Moms a real trooper
and will do anything for her son to receive only EBM or stait from the
breast. I'd like to pass on any tips you all may share for her continued
bout of infections.

Thank you all

Paula Bermingham, IBCLC (10 year recertification/ research mode...but passed
with flying colors and still haven't a clue about infected sweat
glands/entensive pumping)
Also, WIC Breastfeeding Coordinator, Lake County CA