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>  " Chris Betzold is excellent at working with patients who are having
> a problem       breastfeeding.  At times she comes on too strong that formula
> poisons the baby.       There seems to be a tendency to make patients feel
> guilty if they don't breastfeed         or stop breastfeeding.  She (meaning
> me) needs to convey to our patients that [the   practice] encourages
> breastfeeding without making our patients feel bad or   guilty if they choose
> not to breastfeed."

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As I washed the dishes today, I was mulling over the notion of guilt and
decided, according to me, that guilt is a feeling that emerges within a
person when s/he he is not acting with integrity (wholeness), integrity
meaning with head, heart and hands in balance. If a person is out of balance
and behaving as such and experiences *guilt* when someone names  the act
that provokes the guilty feeling, it is the guilt arising or being generated
from within not without. If a woman feels guilty about choosing not to
breastfeed, it is because a part of her is not convinced that artificial
baby milk is best for her baby. Period. If a woman feels, thinks and
believes that ABM is best and feeds her baby with that in mind with all of
her being, she will have no guilt. No one can *make* a person feel guilty,
it is already in there.

I waxed more eloquently to the dishes. Must be those negative ions.

Sincerely,

Lisa Boisvert Mackenzie, Midwife
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

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