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Janice Reynolds]

Lactation nation
A few things I wish the brest-feeding advocates had told me

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/02/19/lactation_nation/

Boston Globe
By Joanna Weiss  |  February 19, 2006

THERE WERE many times, in my early days of breast-feeding, when I seriously
wondered how our species had survived. Those dreamy videos they showed us at
the hospital had little to do with the reality most new moms I knew were
living. Ours was a world of pain, of gel pads and nipple shields and hissing
mechanical pumps that looked like something out of a Terry Gilliam movie.

Hence, I assembled a list of things I wish the breast-feeding advocates had
told me, from ''If it hurts a lot, there's something wrong" to ''Ignore what
we said about babies feeding every three hours for 20 minutes. Nothing that
a newborn does is regular." But what I most wish I had heard, from someone
in authority, was: ''A little formula won't kill her!"

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