> Elizabeth Peyton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have been chewing on the question I first heard on this list "Why don't
> women who have been undermined in their breastfeeding (by the formula
> industry marketing practices, by misguided health workers, by family
> members, by employers, etc) rise up and protest?"
>
> Well, why don't they? Why
> did it take so long for others oppressed by the system to rise up?
> Because they felt oppressed? Because they needed validation? Because,
> in part, they were oppressed in the first place due to their lack of power
> and voice?
Actually, I think we do, but ever so subtley....we join organisations that have the
right info and then train so that we can further disseminate that information, or
some of you have become IBCLC's and taken breastfeeding advice from across
the kitchen table to a recognized profession.
There has been much discussion about whether or not LLL or NMAA for that
matter should become more politically outspoken, in our way we are quite
outspoken, because the softly, softly approach has made some good inroads
into the mass of misinformation that exists and with minimal funding too!
Additionally, as someone else has said, there are so many influences on a
mother, how can she clearly identify the *ONE* piece of misinformation that set
her on that slippery slope away from a good breastfeeding relationship. Of
course, many of the propagators of misinformation tend to be held in high regard
within a community because of their professional status alone so how does one
sole mother say "He made me give my child ABM (and subsequent
diabetes/allergies/obesity etc.)"
Just keep plugging away,
Carmel
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Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep?
William Shakespeare 1564-1616
Antony and Cleopatra [1606-1607],Act: V, Scene: ii, Line: 311
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