Hi All
While I agree, in principle, that breastfeeding is in fact easier than
artificial feeding, I am coming to the conclusion that our cultural
practices and expectations mean that artificial feeding is actually easier
for women to perform.  When women expect/are expected to pursue gainful
employment outside their homes, in places where babies and children are not
welcome; when women live in nuclear or fractured families, are isolated and
have sole responsibility for the wellbeing of their children; when
motherhood is so medicalised that a woman knows that to be a good mother,
she must know how much milk her baby is getting; when women expect/are
expected to socialise apart from their babies; when women expect/are
expected to sleep separately from their babies; when women expect/are
expected to feed their babies not more than third hourly while the sun is
up; when good mothers have babies who 'sleep through the night' and are
happy to spend large parts of the day apart from their mothers; when good
mothers have babies who follow a centile line (greater than the 50th)
absolutely; when babies are expected to get ear aches, tummy aches, head
colds and pneumonia  - then artificial feeding makes much more sense than
breastfeeding, doesn't it???
Sadly
Nina Berry
Australia

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