>
>
>As an aside, I
>think we are missing "something" when a mother has all the information
>and still decides not to breastfeed
>
I agree, but by definition we do not know why this is. My feeling is
that if someone does not choose to breastfeed, she obviously is missing
the piece of information she needs to have "all the information". I also
believe that it is not a fact that has not reached her, it is the sense
that she can do it, that it makes a difference, that she is capable of
being a wonderful mother, and that she will be able to cope with
whatever comes her way. How many people do you know who carry that
knowledge in them *before* they have babies? I mean, besides our
breastfeed children? :-)
If that is the case, is the fact that they are asking the following
questions a step in the right direction or the wrong one? I don't know.

>"Well, I must not have been breastfed then".
>>
>>  "Well this
>>lady at the health fair said I'd have been smarter if you'd breastfed me."
>
In my work in another setting, my primary lesson to children is that
everything they do makes a difference. Sometimes they walk away thinking
they have magical, life-changing powers... I figure those are the girls
who will "get" mothering more easily than the ones who are told there is
no point in trying to create world peace.
Jo-Anne Elder-Gomes, PhD, IBCLC, Cert. Tr.

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