Barbara Wilson Clay always does quite well at yanking off the rose colored
glasses we like to look through when looking back.  Perhaps we are seeking
utopia.  In our utopia mothers breastfeed, babies are born gently and medical
intervention is only used when necessary.  We look to the past and realized we
survived as a species before the interventions without remembering as Barbara
points out how many died in the process.  Still, I like to wish that today the
only ones who get the interventions are those that would have died or been harmed
in the past.  It seems that the health care providers also look to the past
and have magnifying glasses on seeing only the death and dispair and all that
they do is in an effort to control what they fear.  Maybe at some point, we can
take what we know about what does work (in today's knowledge without the rose
colored glasses) and make that our new idea of normal and respect that as
Barbara reminds us, even in normal bad things happen and we need interventions
unless we want to return to the past where many mothers and babies died because
they could give birth naturally or breastfeed.

Take care,
Pam MazzellaDiBosco, IBCLC  Who knows there is no utopia now or then, but
likes to pick out  what was good and hold onto it.

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