Hi all,

I saw this Bottlefeeding Without Guilt in a Barnes & Noble bookstore last
week. I was appalled and started to buy it out of curiosity but I came to my
senses when I saw the price.  I think it was $14.95.

The guilt thing really gets to me.  If a mother has no excuse for not
breastfeeding, (and there are not that many legitimate excuses in my
opinion) and then feels guilty about bottlefeeding, well.....

I think a lot of mothers are just too selfish to breastfeed.  They are self
centered, and think that it will just take too much time.  Sometimes I think
they are afraid they will become TOO attached to their baby!!  Unbelievable,
but I have seen this.   I am getting pretty cynical (and judgemental) in my
middle years, and come down pretty hard on mothers who bottlefeed, but IF
THEY ARE INFORMED, (and that is OUR JOB,) and then decided for SELFISH or
stupid reasons to bottlefeed, then daggonnit, maybe they SHOULD feel guilty!!

The health department in my one-horse town doesn't want the WIC peer
counselors to come down too hard on bottlefeeding because they don't want to
make anyone feel guilty about bottlefeeding and won't even allow
BREASTFEEDING POSTERS hung on the wall for this reason!! Can you believe it?

Preaching is over.  Thanks for listening.  Anyone else out there agree?

Pam Wiggins, IBCLC, Franklin VA