>  I noticed there was a tremendous amount of rhetoric about how
> difficult nursing can be, and no one should feel guillty for giving up such a
> stressful and painful "ritual", but nowhere was there any discussion about
> lactation consultants or other professionals who actually know about
> breastfeeding, and the direct assistance and support they can offer...
> Aargh...

Nor was their anything about common birthing rituals in this ''developed place
like the US'' that harms children so badly that they are not or very poorly able
to perform their natural skills of survival
No, we don't want the mothers to feel guilty that they didn't manage it or that
their babies and bodies seemed to not being able to do as they should. We
actually should want some others to feel very guilty about malpraticing:
dragging babies out of the womb before nature decides it's time, hurrying
delivery up, because they prefer to work office hours, medicating normal births
because the nature of birthing pain is totally misunderstood, performing all
kinds of harming medical rituals, ...
What Sargent does in this article is beating someone up and then wondering why
he has such a strange skincolour,

Sorry, this kind of publications make me mad, I'm not yelling at my fellow
lactnetters, buttyou happen to be the ones listening  :-)

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, living in Maaseik, Belgium
http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac
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