"As a nursing mother, your top priority is providing breastmilk for your
baby."

I begin my talk on language by asking the audience which they would choose: bottle-feeding their baby Western Culture-Style, but with their milk in the bottle, or breastfeeding their baby *their* style, but with formula in their breasts.  I tell them there's no right answer, but *my* choice would unhesitatingly be to breastfeed with formula.  So no, as a nursing mother, my top priority was absolutely *not* the milk.  And as Sam points out, it certainly wouldn't have been the baby's top priority.  So, um, exactly who *is* it who's convincing us to choose Milk over Mothering these days?  It wouldn't be industry, would it??

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY  USA
www.normalfed.com


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