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I am a huge proponent of breastfeeding of course, but I am not sure that
your information as you presented it was at all appropriate at that
particular point in time.
Betsy Riedel, RNC, IBCLC
I do see it as appropriate to be part of the discussion, and see no problem
with the presentation, and here's why.....
There could be people listening to the presentation that are parents but
going to have another, grandparents, young couples without children yet, that
hadn't really thought about the situation they would be left in if they chose to
feed ABM and were in such a catastrophe.
It could be one more piece of information that helps someone make the
decision to breastfeed when they have their child, or encourage their daughter to.
Just a few comments within the presentation that guides their thinking about
emergency situations. Just one more little weight on the decision making
scale.
Let me use a personal example. I was a new mother in 1985, the year of the
earthquake in Mexico. I sat nursing my then 4 mo old twins (I still wasn't
doing much else at 4 mo but nursing those preemies nonstop!) and watched
coverage of the disaster, having never once thought about what a mother that has
chosen to use ABM does in a situation like that. Just not a thought that had
ever crossed what I typically considered to be my over-prepared mind.
So I can definitely see the importance of addressing how choosing to
breastfeed your children is something that should be thought about in terms of a
potential disaster. If I were in a workshop like this in a place where people
knew me and knew that I worked with nursing moms, then I'd feel comfortable
raising my hand and briefly making a point. Would I then quietly fume (because
I was faced with yet another situation where ABM was considered normal)
while trying to keep a poker face on? Probably. :)
Cheryl Taylor White, CBE
_www.drjaygordon.com_ (http://www.drjaygordon.com)
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