http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/227970_robert10x.html

Well, colleagues, I just sent off my first letter in response to a media
article.  FYI,

Dear Mr. Jamieson,

I recently read your column of Friday, June 10, on line.  Thank you for your
well reasoned support of breastfeeding moms.  Hopefully more editorialists
and others in the media will see the light and begin to support moms nursing
anywhere.  

One of the ways that we in the lactation support industry are hoping to
normalize breastfeeding is to change our language and use breastfeeding as
the standard.  We are trying to help moms understand that breastfed babies
are not healthier, it is formula-fed children are sicker.  Breastfed kids
get a normal amount of colds and ear infections and diabetes.  Formula kids
get more colds, ear infections and diabetes than normal.  If in a group of
100 breastfed children 10 kids get a disease and in a group of 100 formula
fed children 20 kids get the same disease, breastfeeding does not cut the
risk in half, formula feeding doubles the risk.  

Talking about breastfeeding making children healthier is kind of like saying
that non-smokers are healthier.  It is an absolute fact, non-smokers and
breastfeeding children are both healthier.  We need to use the norms though.
Smokers are sicker as are formula fed children.

As an obvious breastfeeding supporter, perhaps breastfeeding moms can count
on you to work with your colleagues to change your language so that
breastfeeding is the norm.  Will you help us remind the public that
breastfed children are normal?

Thank you again for your well-written support of breastfeeding mothers.

Linda Pohl, IBCLC, RLC
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www.eBESTFed.com
"Everything for the Breastfeeding Family"

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