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Virginia Thorley <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:22:00 +1000
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Pam Morrison made some more good points in her post yesterday.  I'd like to
add that, according to my reading, during World War II the public health
provision of National Dried Milk to UK mothers to feed their babies resulted
in more mothers abandoning breastfeeding.  The reason was that they
perceived the free food as having government endorsement, i.e. what the
government wanted them to feed to their babies.  There would also have been
the issue of missing out on a freebie if they breastfed.

Just one example of many of what the gift culture does, even when it started
out with good intent, i.e. to make sure that artificially-fed babies weren't
malnourished in times of hardship.

Virginia

 

Dr Virginia Thorley, OAM, PhD, IBCLC, FILCA 

Brisbane, Qld, Australia 

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