Someone needs to take these 'friendly helpers' aside and suggest that they
truly support this mother in breastfeeding her baby.  That means they can:
do laundry, scrub toilets, make beds, vacuum, do grocery shopping, and most
of all, they can COOK COOK COOK and freeze one meal's worth of food in a
container that can go from freezer to fridge to stove to table to sink.
They should round up others to help her with the housework and shopping for
the first six months at least.  Perhaps members of her church, or a local
service organization.  Even high school kids from the local school might be
recruited to help her.  With the understanding that the only time someone
else cares for the baby is while mom is taking a shower or a nap, and that
if the baby needs to nurse, it gets a fresh diaper and goes back to mom.

Kathy Dettwyler

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