Susan Smylie's recent post about a cb prep instructor incorporating
breastfeeding into at least half of the class series is right on the money.
I have been advocating such an approach for years and discussed it in
writing in my 1994 Childbirth Instructor article where I also mentioned the
dangers of getting freebies (and passing them out or giving mothers' names
away to guess who/what) for such classes.  WHen the assumption is that
breastfeeding is how babies are fed, one can go a long way toward not only
informing but countering the other views that are so much more prevalent.
I did the same thing when teaching Family Sociology classes. During the
child development lectures, I used my son's doll and one of his baby
blankets and simply held the baby doll in the nursing position thorughout
each class.  Bottles and bottle-feeding were NEVER mentioned. Several class
members later told me such modeling (though they never quite called it
that) impressed them greatly--an in teh direciton I was hoping when they
became pregnant.

Be a role model, mothering model, helping assisting model and you will
influence far more than one individual!




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brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
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