Dear friends,
To start the day with a smile I'd like to share this with you: <http://www.borstvoeding.com/zijkolom/cartoon/>
It's the major Dutch breastfeeding site, just started a weekly cartoon. this week's is the concierge telling the pregnant employee the ''sure we have a room to express milk'', the last one with the two ladies at the beach says: ''eeeks, is she having a kid at her tits?''-''some folks don't have any decency'' (topless at the beach is no big deal around here). The middle one goes with the topic of no time to breastfeed and says ''breastfeeding? Not for me, that fuss''.
Warmly,
Gonneke, IBCLC, LLLL in southern Netherlands
--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Ana @ Rocky Mountain Doula <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Ana @ Rocky Mountain Doula <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [LACTNET] Time to BF
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 12:24 AM
I, too, scratch my head at the comment "didn't have time to
breastfeed" that
was mentioned. I agree that breastfeeding is actually the most
time-efficient way of feeding a baby, and learned to use a sling to feed my
youngest two while chasing the older ones through the park, zoo, or stock
show. The one child that I had to bottle feed proved to me that it is NOT
easier or quicker, just more expensive and easier to be detached.
I remember reading Karen Pryor's book Nursing Your Baby in 1986 when I had
my first daughter. She talked about last babies, especially those that
arrive after the older ones are much older (perhaps the baby was a surprise
or "dividend" as they used to call them), and she said that these
mothers
sometimes did not seem to have enough milk. She said that often it was
because they didn't slow down in the early postpartum period, did not take
the time to establish a milk supply and really focus on nursing, but rather
were swept back up into the busyness of having older children and other
activities. With the lessened time devoted to establishing the nursing
relationship, and the insufficient milk and poor weight gain that resulted,
these women had a choice to either back off their activities for a time and
really focus on breastfeeding again, or they often wound up bottle feeding.
(I am, of course, paraphrasing from memory because I don't know where my
very old copy of Nursing Your Baby is, or whether this discussion appears in
later editions.)
I wonder if the mother who made the original comment actually had this
happen to her and either chose not to correct her course or realized it much
too late to regain her supply. So perhaps it is a "prioriteit"
issue, or
one of altering the "prioriteit" too late to repair the damage.
Ana M. Hill, CLD, CLE, CCCE
CAPPA Faculty Member- <http://www.cappa.net> www.cappa.net
Labor Doula Trainer
<http://www.rockymountaindoula.com> www.rockymountaindoula.com
720-876-1319
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