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"Micky Jones, LLL Leader, CLE, CLD" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:41:06 -0500
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I too am confused as to how c-sections and how the baby is born in general
is totally unrelated to breastfeeding. Can a c-section mom and baby
breastfeed successfully? Absolutely, yes. Does it often make things more
difficult? Yes. Should we be concerned when OBs treat it like a non-event
without serious risks and long term implications? Yes. It is surgery and no
surgery should be taken lightly or dismissed as an equal way to give birth.
It is a choice just as to breastfeed or not is a choice. However, not all
choices are equal and all choices have consequences and benefits.  I no
longer take so much as an antibiotic without thinking about the
implications, benefits, risks and knowing the alternatives. It is important
that all people have the unbiased, full truthful information and the
decision can be made without question or regret. Whatever decision a woman
(and I think personally, partner too) makes is hers to live with. She is the
only one who lives in her skin.

My concern is that we treat surgical birth like it is a completely safe, no
risk procedure for perfectly normal healthy women and change the middle of
the pregnancy-birth-breastfeeding-parenting continuum. It will have many
more ramifications than we know and we won't know how it will truely effect
things for years to come. This is another area (breastfeeding is the other)
where we seem reluctant to have a standard or a norm.

Respectfully,
Micky

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