<I have often envisioned a home for bf mothers. Maybe I will open one. Kinda
like a bed and breakfast. Birth your baby and then come here for the first
few days. All the mommies in one big cozy room with lots of beds, fresh
flowers, and smells of good food cooking and served to you while you mother
your babies. And the bf helpers just lolling about helping a little here and
there - and tasting the soup.>

That's long been my dream, too! And I bet lots of others of us here as well.
Of course, I don't want to actually be the one to get it started - I just
want it to be there, run by women I trust, for all those moms that need it!

Heard a thing on CNN a few months back about a place sort of like this (only
more like a hotel, less like a cozy little house) in Korea (I think). But it
was awful - they promoted the whole thing as a place for the moms to let the
nurses (or whatever the caregivers were) take care of the babies so the moms
could "rest" and "pamper themselves". They showed the babies all being
bottle fed in the nsy while the moms were watching TV & "resting" sociably
with each other. Apparently it's wildly popular. The story was making a big
deal of how the mothers loved not having to bother feeding their babies.
YIKES! *Not* part of my dream!

Cathy Bargar RN, IBCLC Ithaca NY

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