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On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:56:33 -0400, Rachel Myr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>But if someone continues to breastfeed while truly disliking it, they will
>be hard put not to communicate this to the child, and it could have
>consequences for how that child will handle physical intimacy to others, or
>the balance between acknowledging one's own needs and the needs of
others,
>or the feelings that accompany hunger and satiety. It is not unthinkable to
>me that being breastfed out of duty rather than desire or at least a
>combination of duty and desire, could make it difficult to accept one's own
>need for intimacy, or for satiety.
As a person who believes very strongly in evidence-based practice, I have to
respectfully disagree with the above statement. Is there anything to back up
this belief? Yes, I agree that it seems intuitive. But I believe that is because
most of us have grown up in the culture of 'choice' . Breastfeeding is a choice
that the mother makes, end of story. So, according to this construct, if a
mother is unhappy about this choice (a choice that is only about her in this
belief system), then if she is unhappy, well that must be a bad thing, with
possible bad consequences.
Our beliefs about so many things is shaped by our culture, we are often not
able to see how they shape us.
Jamelle
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