>
>A third reason could be a repressive family atmosphere and a lot of
>shame about the body.  Though they obviously overcame this enough to get
>pregnant...
>--
>Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC  New York City  mailto:[log in to unmask]

This is the part that always makes me pause.  It seems to me that if
there's an intimate bodily behavior likely to be thought disgusting
(due to shame and/or abuse), it's SEX.  If a woman is able to work
through feelings of aversion to sex, and becomes pregnant in a
healthy sexual relationship, then why shouldn't she similarly be able
to handle breastfeeding?  I just think breastfeeding should be a
cakewalk after the kind of intimacy it takes to make a baby (assuming
a healthy relationship).

Margaret
Longmont, Colorado

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