><< "I breastfed for six months and for three of those I was
> working.. At one point I went to my physician with a bad cold and
> exhausted.  When she learned I was working full time and breastfeeding
> she said it wasn't healthy. I was on the verge of collapse, " she
> remembers.


I too wanted to chime in on this attitude.  Women all over the world work
the whole time they are breastfeeding -- they don't get the first three
months off.  In Mali, women get 8 days off, and then it's back to the fields
growing crops, hauling water, collecting and chopping firewood, pounding
millet, etc., etc., etc.  If this woman (above) found that working full-time
and breastfeeding "wasn't healthy" and put on "on the verge of collapse"
then why the H*** didn't she stop working full-time, or hire a housekeeper,
or instruct her husband to help her more?????

Signed, Kathy Dettwyler, who always worked or went to school or both (more
than full-time) for the entire 9.5 years of breastfeeding, and who thinks
many American women are wusses and complain entirely too much.