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>Bad analogy, sorry, Diane!
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>What friends feel comfortable saying to each other is *different*
>from a message to millions of people who are not friends.
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> A pregnant woman comes into the antenatal clinic and says she eats
>3 Big Macs a day, or lets make it even worse, washed down with 20
>cigarettes and a snort of cocaine.
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>Does her midwife say 'Oh, no, do you know what that is *doing* to you?'
Heather -
By golly, you're absolutely right about how we approach a woman as a friend vs as a professional. But you made me realize something else. We don't come down hard on the hamburgers even as a friend *unless there's already a strong public awareness backing us up*. It's absolutely not the *first* voice our friend hears on the subject. We're just contributing a louder and more personal voice to a long-running background chorus. And *that* may be why we need all sorts of approaches to an effective breastfeeding campaign. Build up a tidal wave of information of all kinds from all directions, and friends *can* begin to say, "What? Formula? You're kidding, right?" As things are, if we tried that even with a friend we'd just come across as weird: "Oh, that's just Diane, on her soap box again". Nope. Doesn't work without the background chorus.
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC Ithaca, NY USA
www.wiessinger.baka.com
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