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From: "Wendy Blumfield" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 11:25 AM
Subject: [LACTNET] PPD and breastfeeding


> Is it serendipity or just that we BFCs share brain-waves, but just as the 
> PPD and pregnancy mental health issues have stimulated so much discussion, 
> so much more material seems to be coming our way.  I really appreciated 
> receiving the Breastfeeding Curriculum.

**I agree, Wendy!
Just last week I read in a national newspaper about the value of 
ex-psychiatric patients working in these health care settings. Because they 
have expert knowledge and know what people go through, they can provide 
valuable assistence in the treatment. I was amazed by how easily I could 
change 'psychiatric patient' into 'breastfeeding mother' and have the 
peer-counseling concept!
I think I will write to the newspaper and bring this to their attention in a 
reader's letter; knowing how much a good bf experience contributes to mental 
health and secure attachment, I'd reckon more emphasis should be put on our 
role as breastfeeding volunteers and lc's, so that fewer people need 
ex-psychiatric patients to help them through their troubles later on...

Warmly,

Marianne Vanderveen, Netherlands 

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