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Date: | Tue, 23 May 2006 20:13:47 -0400 |
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Robyn,
We have a lot of military families in North Carolina. The biggest obstacle
to breastfeeding I see in active duty moms is the culture that you can be a
mother or you can be a soldier, but if you're a soldier, the mother part is
strictly on your own time and the baby is definitely not your first
priority! This is a real struggle for many moms who desire a career, but
don't want to sacrifice their children. I guess that's what all working
moms face, but in the military they can compel you to leave your child.
A very undersupported group is the breastfeeding military wife. There is a
mom in my LLL group, whose husband has been home for a total of about 4
months in the past 3 years, fighting in Afghanistan and then Iraq. The
pressure on these moms is enormous as they are single moms, but not! There
is no one to take the baby for a few minutes, no one to say they are doing a
good job, no one to support them at all, then when their husbands do come
home, they are used to being batchelors and have a hard time reintegrating
into the family. There is tremendous pressure on these mothers to wean so
that they can leave the baby and get a break and to not sleep with the baby
to save that space for their husbands (misguided as it is).
Melanie Young
IBCLC, LLL of Johnston County, NC
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