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Denhez Louise <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:35:32 -0500
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Do dreamed projects work ?

I have two dreams to help bf be mainstream:
1. a yearly, well-publicised award to the "baby friendly store", one that
has a place for
mothers to change diapers, rock the baby, and, of course, breastfeeding.
The idea came when I went to a swedish furniture store (I will not name
it, though I think the store deserves free publicity) where there was a
"baby corner" supplied with: bathroom, changing table out of the
bathroom, confortable armchair, pillows, and, and do not fall off your
chair, a twin bed. Not all the branches have the separate room with the
bed, but, to my knowledge, they all have the bathroom and the separate
room to sit, bf, change baby, etc...
2. Affordable and accessible breastfeeding clothes.  After all, nobody
questions the practicability of pregnancy clothing, yet, my mother had
trouble finding it. Now, though we can live without pregnancy clothing,
why would one do without? They are confortable, affordable, and available
in department stores. And, what else than Jane Fonda's sport fashion made
exercise more mainstream ? (I read a study way back then, that saw an
impact of the availability of exercise clothing that is confortable and
OK looking on the initiation of physical fitness programs).  So, same
with bf clothes: we can live without, but it is nice to put a dress,
sometimes, and to go to work with a shirt that you do not have to untuck
to pump and then tuck again.
On the same vein, I would like to see an "young designer award" in the
fashion industry under the bf theme. I called a fashion school here in
Montreal, and they told me that this was the way children fashion, and
pregnancy fashion got started.  Any sponsor, out there ?

Louise Denhez, M.D., M.P.H
Chargee d'enseignement clinique
Departement de medecine sociale et preventive

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