Just to add to this.  The fear of female and the fear of female bodily
fluids can also be a factor.

Here in the UK, social services are very suspicious of breastmilk, as
something they cannot control.  We've had incidences where
breastfeeding, and EBM, has been forbidden as cited as a child
protection issue: the mother may poison herself in order to poison the
baby.  So even in front of social workers, the mother cannot breastfeed,
in case she has poisoned herself prior, in order to kill the baby.  This
madness was compounded, when it was used as the reason for taking a
child at birth - how could the mother have rejoined herself in the
maternity ward?  Not knowing when she might labour?

It's hard even writing that.  But it is on record, with babies being
removed at the moment of birth, that the mother cannot breastfed for one
moment... in case deliberate harm is being done to the child.

Breastmilk is a female body fluid.  Fear of females, and their 'icky'
body fluids is very strong in some parts of our cultures.  The
definition of misogyny is fear or women, not hatred... fear.  :-(

Morgan Gallagher



Elizabeth Brooks wrote:
> The problem is that the *fear* of being sued in the litigious-happy-USA
> often clouds the clinical picture.

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