"After cheerfully signing up to have a human being either pulled or cut out  
of me and then getting over all the sewing-up, I don’t want to get into any  
situation where I may have to reassure myself that the foreign discharge, if 
and  when it comes out of my nipple, is perfectly natural, or that the painfully 
 clogged duct will soon clear up, provided I keep the feedings frequent."
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Dear Friends:
    This is an amazing article; the author is very open  with her views. 
    I am sure that this attitude is becoming more  common, as birth has been 
mostly medicalized and technologically driven for the  past 50 years (save for 
a brief time in the 70s, when women demanded the right  to give birth 
naturally).
    If women view birth as "signing up to have a human  being either pulled 
or cut out of me" what chance has breastfeeding?
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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