I am a huge proponent of breastfeeding of course, but I am not sure that  
your information as you presented it was at all appropriate at that  
particular point in time.


Betsy Riedel, RNC, IBCLC
 
I do see it as appropriate to be part of the discussion, and see no problem  
with the presentation, and here's why.....
 
There could be people listening to the presentation that are parents but  
going to have another, grandparents, young couples without children yet, that  
hadn't really thought about the situation they would be left in if they chose to 
 feed ABM and were in such a catastrophe.  
 
It could be one more piece of information that helps someone make the  
decision to breastfeed when they have their child, or encourage their daughter  to.  
Just a few comments within the presentation that guides their thinking  about 
emergency situations.  Just one more little weight on the decision  making 
scale.
 
Let me use a personal example.  I was a new mother in 1985, the  year of the 
earthquake in Mexico.  I sat nursing my then 4 mo old  twins (I still wasn't 
doing much else at 4 mo but nursing those  preemies nonstop!) and watched 
coverage of the disaster, having never  once thought about what a mother that has 
chosen to use ABM does in a situation  like that.  Just not a thought that had 
ever crossed what I typically  considered to be my over-prepared mind.  
 
So I can definitely see the importance of addressing how choosing to  
breastfeed your children is something that should be thought about in terms of a  
potential disaster.  If I were in a workshop like this in a place where  people 
knew me and knew that I worked with nursing moms, then I'd feel  comfortable 
raising my hand and briefly making a point.  Would I then  quietly fume (because 
I was faced with yet another situation where ABM was  considered normal) 
while trying to keep a poker face on?  Probably.   :)
 
Cheryl Taylor White, CBE
_www.drjaygordon.com_ (http://www.drjaygordon.com) 

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