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Jessica LaBaugh <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 6 Oct 2008 07:41:52 -0700
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I'm very excited by this dicussion and would love to keep it going.  Here's another question:

How can we facillitate breastfeeding for working mothers in terms of promoting the kind of responsiveness that ensures the success of breastfeeding?

I am pretty much textbook AP according to both the API principles and Dr. Sears' doctrine (if I can call it that).  I didn't start out with a preconceived notion of how to parent, I just did what felt natural and later found out that it had a name.  BUT I also am privileged to have a supportive partner who also believes in AP and whose salary allows me to stay at home with the kids.  I'm hyper-responsive (my husband says that I can hear my baby's eyes open from the other side of the house) in part because I'm lucky enough to be around my kids 24/7.  

For moms who either choose to return to work or must return to work soon after giving birth, scheduling becomes a reality for everyone.  Gotta pump, gotta shower, gotta go.  A friend of mine probably spends a total of 2 hours a day with her baby because she works all day and the baby has been trained to sleep all night in a crib.  She was using formula at 5 months because her baby "didn't want to nurse".  

How responsive would I be if I had to work 9 hours a day?  

Is an attached, breast-fed baby a prize only for those in an economic situation to afford one?

Jess



      

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