Pat wrote: "I've been doing BF for over 30 years now, one mother at a
time. I see small differences...if I didn't see that all the work has
had some positive results, I'd have quit long ago.."
Dear Pat,
I do agree with you entirely... Some days, we become discouraged of what
seems to us "not making any difference" (like Dr.Jack today?...) but
some other days, we see that we DID make a difference..., even a slight
one... Difference in our growing children and their friends who now come
for "advice", in our colleagues who change a bit (a little at the
time...), in more mothers who are looking for a more natural approach
for their babies, in the world changing slowly but surely in "our right"
direction... I too would have quit also, so many years ago, if somewhere
down in the bottom of my heart, I was not sure I was doing what I
sincerely believe is right. Like Gail also, I will continue bringing my
empty bucket and find other people who believe they are doing the same
right thing as I do (Lactnetters for one!...) so we will be more and
more of our same kind to empty the lake of formula!
Some days when I feel discouraged, I remind myself that I only need to
make a difference in one person's life and then we will be two in making
the difference in two persons' lives and so on... Today is one of those
days for me... I started being "on call" for a birth companionship...
The future mom is one of my ex-students in nursing. She had told me some
years ago, after the semester in perinatal nursing, that she would call
me as birth companion when she would get pregnant since I was thinking
"natural" the same way her husband and her were, and that she wanted a
"good start" for her family.... She is due to deliver this coming week
and this is my sunshine for the next days...I did make a difference in
one or two persons' lives and this is what counts... It is not political
power, Dr Jack, but it is human love and human power...isn't it more
important?
Have a nice day!!! Louise
Louise Dumas, R.N., M.S.N., PhD
Professor-researcher in Nursing Sciences
University of Quebec in Hull
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