A little while ago, I had a long email relationship with a mother of 
(then) 11 children who never breastfed, but who, deep in her heart, 
wanted to with the next baby ...but this only came out after quite a 
lengthy correspondence. She was quite vocal about the difficulties 
she saw other women going through when they breastfed, and I 
explained in a number of emails how these might be avoided. She kept 
up the correspondence, asking questions, adding 'yes, buts....' and 
'what ifs.....'  ad infinitum :)

Then she told me that her husband did not want her to breastfeed, 
because he saw it (and I remember the phrase clearly) as 
'contraception by the back door' ie a 'secret'  even 'sneaky' way to 
limit the number of children they  had.

They were a fundamentalist family and believed contraception was 
against their religious laws....and that included Nature's (or God's) 
very own beautiful, elegant and delightfully pleasurable method.

Isn't that sad?

I lost touch with her but I often think about her.

Heather Welford Neil

NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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