>
>
>In my advocacy letters on this issue, I've been saying that LLL and
>others have been promoting bf on its 'benefits' for nearly 50 years
>now and where has it gotten us? We have a nation of women who KNOW
>that bf is best, but still choose not to.
>
I'm not sure how factual this is. It seems to me that the breastfeeding
rates have increased since LLL started nearly 50 years ago. I think it
is important to make evidence-based statements. And if it is true that
women know bf is best but choose not to (this, I presume, would mean
that there are studies on the knowledge base) we need to look hard at
the reasons why. I am still surprised by what I hear both in helping
calls and at parties (the latter are an awakening in many ways,
including the fact that last time I went to a Christmas party without
children I was a mother of two. :-) I'm not hearing that mothers think
breastfeeding and artificial feeding are equivalent, I'm hearing that
the difficulties of breastfeeding are overwhelming. Just tonight a
mother asked me, "Does anybody else have trouble learning how to latch a
baby on?"

Jo-Anne Elder-Gomes, LLLL, mother of 7, step-mother of 2, step-nanny of
5 (3 living)

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