Carol says,

<< Women are scary! Traditionally, women's power is awesome and unfathomable
 and unmatched by anything men do - that's why men try to subjugate and
 dominate them. And traditional western medicine is 100% a male-designed
 set-up - the hierarchy, the trial-by-fire of medical training, the
 competitive structure of the field, the whole thing just reeks of
 testosterone! But birth and breastfeeding are all about WOMEN, so it just
 provokes over-reaction. The bigger the fear, the more the hostility. >>

Hey -- good thing the men have the birth part under control.  They've
convinced all the women that "being in control, a la epidurals" is how to
have The Perfect Birth.

Now let's see what they do for breastfeeding.

Jan the cynical

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