>
>I wonder at the posts that say that some cultures are too worried 
>about weights. I wonder how someone could not be concerned when baby 
>is failure to thrive or way under weight or not gaining well enough? 
>.
>
>We can agree to disagree and leave the not so subtle cultural 
>bashing aside. We all have to take responsibility for the mothers we 
>help and the information we give and I think we all want to do the 
>best we can for our mothers and babies who are not doing well. So 
>how about calling a truce on the cultural stuff and let's just say 
>we are all trying to do the best for the mothers and babies we help?
>
>Kathy Eng, BSW, IBCLC


Kathy, I have re-read the posts in this discussion, and I can't see 
any which say 'some cultures are too worried about weights' but if I 
have missed something, I apologise.

I don't see 'cultural bashing' here at all.

I would hate, though, to think we cannot speculate on how culture and 
cultural practices impact on how women breastfeed and what sort of 
help they can access and what type of support they might get.

I agree - we can pretty much  assume that people on Lactnet want to 
do the best for the mothers and babies we care for.  But that demands 
a high level of self-awareness and cultural awareness, too, doesn't 
it?

We have often discussed here how the Western post-industrial 
revolution emphasis on timing, scheduling, resistance to responding 
to a baby's needs works against breastfeeding. And how some 
healthcare professionals blame breastfeeding for just about anything. 
And the way separation of mother and baby post-partum can undermine 
breastfeeding....all cultural practices which we quite rightly 
discuss, without 'bashing' the entire culture they come from.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc,  tutor, UK

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