>  There are so many examples, but the bottom line, in
>almost all other aspects of health care, providers have no problem describing
>risk and benefits of other life decisions.  Why would discussing the risks of
>formula feeding be any different?

Ann....it is different for so many reasons.

We have to be sensitive and aware, that we are dealing with women's
bodies, that breastfeeding is a political and cultural issue in a way
that wearing a cycle helmet just isn't....that feeding choices have a
*history* of being influenced in all sorts of ways (see Gabrielle
Palmer)....that any individual woman may have a personal and
highly-charged issue pertaining to her own breasts over and above the
'accident' of belonging to a particular 'place' in time.

Breastfeeding is not car seats, or cycle helmets, or even baby sleep
position (re SIDS).

Healthcare professionals' own attitudes to bf are filtered through
this political/historical/cultural lens, in a way which is totally
unlike their attitude to cycle helmets.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, UK

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