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Lisa Marasco IBCLC <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 6 Apr 1999 15:09:39 -0700
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>>I noticed this too, but Peggy Robin is also the author of a fertility
treatment book, and it said, "Customers who bought titles by Peggy Robin
also bought titles by these authors", so I assume that people who bought
those infertility books were buying her book on fertility treatment, not
bottlefeeding.<<

Now I find this very, very interesting, as one who is studying milk
production issues as related to infertility. This is what happens when we
don't understand what went wrong; we then may feel the need to generalize
our experience and project our solution on to everyone else so that we can
feel good about ourselves. *If* Peggy had a true primary failure and had the
opportunity to discover that what happened to her did not happen in a
vacuum, but had real, definable reasons, then maybe her energies could have
gone to researching the problems rather than assuaging the guilt for what
may have felt like a capricious, inexplicable "failure".

Just another reason for us to dig more deeply on behalf of those mystery
problem cases. When I dialogued with several PCOS moms with supply problems
and explained that it might have been hormonal, you should have read the
teary letters of relief I received back. Too many suffered from guilt, both
their own and that put upon them by others who assumed that they "just
didn't try hard enough". To know that it might be totally out of their
control brought some of these moms a great deal of peace......

Lisa Marasco, BA, IBCLC

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