Judy Ritchie posts on gut feelings and evidence based practice.  That
discussion will have to wait til I can relate it to BF, but I do want to say
that in the case of BF we may do well to follow our instincts.  That's what
the babies do if we just let them and it has a good track record.  However,
as a basis for practice in the clinical arena I would not consider instinct
alone to be enough.

But I think the Swedes would be astonished to learn that they were placed in
the category of *third world* or *primitive*, with one of the highest rates
of consumption of goods and energy in the world (right up here with Norway),
high literacy, incredibly high degree of regulation of many societal
activities, and such an obsession with research that the genre of ethnic
jokes here about Norwegians, Danes and Swedes often involve the Swedish
character starting a research project to solve virtually any problem at all.

Sitting in a hotel room at a conference on C-section heavily spiked with
Swedish perinatal professionals,
Rachel Myr
Norway

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