I just got Ezzoed!!  My first time.  I knew it would happen sometime. I've
listened and read about this movement for several years and alternated
between anger and sadness as I heard about the well-meaning mothers and
their babies who were being robbed of one of the most meaningful experiences
of their lives.  But I didn't KNOW those moms.

This mom I know, and while working with her I grew to care for her and her
family.  I see the fear in her eyes and the pain she feels as she struggles
to answer the call of her precious baby while believing that God doesn't
want her to.  He wants her to feed her baby and put her in her crib until
three hours have past.  She cries with her baby, and wonders what is wrong
with her or her baby. She reads that she should not carry her baby in a
sling because the baby's back will be curved and this will be harmful. She
reads...and reads...

I listened to her plea for me to make it all right without changing any of
Ezzo's rules.  I reflected her heart-wrenching emotions.  I told her that
this program is debated by others of her religious conviction, and I talked
about her baby's learning to trust. I told her that she and her baby are on
the SAME side.  We talked for a while and I left.

Now, for me, "anger and sadness" don't seem enough.

Patricia Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee