>>How about breastfeeding drop-in centres, well-baby clinics and a LC
>>contact for every single mother who has a new baby?<

>When we reclaim breastfeeding knowledge on behalf of women we have to remember
>not to take it away from where it is now and forget to hand it on.  As lay
>breastfeeding supporters one of our explicit aims has always been to
>ultimately
>do ourselves out of a job, because we are working for  breastfeeding knowledge
>to become re-embedded back in the embodied discourse of everywoman.


Yep - or as one of the smaller bf support organisations here (Association
of Breastfeeding Mothers) used to put  it,  in a slogan to publicise their
support groups  - 'wouldn't it be good if you had a friend who was
breastfeeding, too? '

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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