I always found this odd.  Everyone was telling me to introduce a  
bottle in case I had to be away, or to send bub to daycare so she  
would get used to being away from me if needed.  I couldn't work out  
why I should traumatise my baby or risk breastfeeding on the off  
chance that it might be necessary.  If I needed to be apart from bub  
then the trauma would be needed, but not very likely to happen, while  
it would certainly happen if I sent bub to day care, or introduced  
bottles just in case.  Why make a possibility into a certaintly?

Jenny

Jenny Doncon
Breastfeeding Counsellor, IBCLC, Australia

(read my expressing story here: http://www.lrc.asn.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41257 
  and my weaning diary here http://www.lrc.asn.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40015)



On 22/09/2010, at 12:44 AM, Mary Wagner-Davis wrote:

> <However, the one motivation for
> bottlefeeding that seems hardest to shake is the fear that something  
> would
> happen to make mom unexpectedly and temporarily or permanently  
> unavailable,
> and baby would go hungry.  It's hard to reason with this very primal  
> fear of
> leaving your baby unprovided for.  I see that as another target for
> education and cultural change so that babies do not end up getting  
> bottles
> just for insurance.>
>

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