Jesi,

I don't have a source with me as I'm at home and someone else will  
probably get it for you before I'm back at work Tuesday. But may I  
just suggest that for your friend's articles for World Breastfeeding  
Week she word it differently than "medically able to breastfeed"? The  
idea of breastfeeding being a medical condition, either medically  
healthy or not, is not the best one in terms of the concept that was  
discussed recently of a breastfeeding friendly culture.  If this were  
a breastfeeding friendly culture we would assume everyone was able to  
breastfeed.  It would be a very rare mother who might not be able to  
breastfeed and she would then be taken to a specialist, whether a  
lactation consultant or physician or both. But healthy women would  
just be thought of as normal, not medically able to breastfeed.

Lucy Towbin, MSW, LCSW, IBCLC

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