I like your analogy comparing BF practice with diabetic teaching, Kathleen
(snipped for space).

>When we support another mother in a mothering practice as important as
>breastfeeding, we are forced, either consciously or unconsciously, to
>examine our own parenting, our own mothering, and our own beliefs.  This
>examination is painful for some, and hence the professional stubborness and
>pain when we might have to admit that what we might have done with our
>families, our babies, etc, might not have been the best choices...

I wish people would make the same analogy with the material above and say,
other food choices.  For example, people used to eat cholesterol-ambush
breakfasts of steak and eggs, yet I don't think anyone feels any particular
remorse that this *used* to happen, now that they are eating shredded wheat
with skim milk.  They simply accept that, now, they know better.

Andrea

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