Debbie,
    Thanks for mentioning Helen Hunt and her chat on  Letterman. Maybe seeing 
that would have countered the disgust my husband and I  felt when again on TV 
nursing is seen as something only stupid or  fanatical women do. In this 
version a nursing mother who is young and  drug-addicted ( after an injury, being 
put on painkillers)  puts her  baby at risk by leaving the baby in  a car 
alone while she goes to a  club to score drugs, then they find out the baby has 
opiates in its system  and the mother says she would NEVER give her baby drugs. 
The policewoman says  something like "but honey you're breastfeeding". Of 
course the baby is taken  away, is ill,  and then later dies supposedly of 
pneumonia caused by  aspiration of breast milk... There is one moment when the police 
officer says  the mother was only trying to take care of her baby...
   
Judy  

Judy LeVan  Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL, Brooklyn, USA


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