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Jen wrote:
 
<<The breast is best  message has permeated society,
and the women who are going to respond to that  message have and are  
responding...
We definitely need new  messages...>>


 
 
This hit home to me today when a  young mom called asking how to wean.  Her 
baby is two months old -- and  before I said ANYTHING, she said, "I know the 
best thing is to breastfeed, but I  want to wean."  Period.
 
A mom I saw yesterday at the  hospital said she had decided to go to bottle 
feeding without ever putting her  baby to breast.  "I know that breastfeeding 
is best for him, but I had so  much trouble last time and was so glad when I 
started bottle feeding that I  don't even want to try this time."  
 
Yes, they've gotten the message  that "breastfeeding is the best feeding for 
babies," but they are countering  with the message that it isn't best for 
themselves.
 
Sigh.




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