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Date: | Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:12:34 -0700 |
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We need to realize if we tread too lightly, we will leave no impression.
What would be a greater motivator for any of us, something that
provides "benefits" or something that prevents risks? Benefits sounds
like a bonus. We don't talk about the benefits of using carseats,
eating a healthy diet (when was the last time you heard "Junk food is
fine, but you'll feel be healthier if you eat fruits and
vegetables"?), how about the "benefits" of not being obese? Do we
talk about the benefits of not abusing alcohol? The benefits of
getting enough sleep? No, we talk about the risks, why should
breastfeeding be any different? Are people considered overzealous if
they talk about the risks of risky behavior when those risks are well
documented? And if we continue to use war, fuzzy language, do we
protect the mother by putting her infant at risk because we didn't
give her straight information?
And for the record, I grew up with parents that chain smoked in the
car with the windows rolled up. Would it be at all responsible for me
to tell a parent that is acceptable behavior because I survived and
don't (yet) have any lung conditions? If I did, that would be
considered appalling, why should the fact that formula fed kids can
turn out "okay" (and how do you define that anyway?) change what we
know about the risks of formula?
Mothers deserve factual information and nothing less.
Andrea Tran RN, IBCLC
Boulder/Erie, Colorado
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