Regarding Tammy's post on the mother who gave all her breastfeeding
related "stuff" to the LLL group as breastfeeding only lasted a few
weeks:

I witnessed consumerism to the extreme in a young mother over 10 years
ago.  She and her husband decorated a *nursery* to welcome their baby
home from the hospital.  I had never seen so much "stuff" in a middle
class rented home.  I guess they thought the decor would make them good
parents
and were showing their.  The pregnant mother and her newborn were
definitely exposed to paint off-gassing.

I came home shaking my head and crying to my daughters that this newborn
baby girl just wished to be at her mother's breast, in her arms and in
her mother's bed.

Newborn was in her *home nursery* lying on her side with formula given
via a propped bottle.  (That was the style of the paternal
mother-in-law,
my contemporary, who had a daughter (last of 5 children) the same time
as my second that was breastfed.)

Breastfeeding of this infant stopped immediately upon coming home.  The
mother refused help, she was a "know it all."  Baby girl did not have
anywhere a normal IQ as she was developmentally disabled and
neurologically impaired.

By toddler age she was diagnosed ADD and ADHD and put on drugs.  At age
7 or so at a social function, she put her head in my lap and then bolted
to go on to something/someone else and knocked me in the jaw so hard
with her head that I had to see my chiropractor.  She had a younger
sister by then and I wondered how safe it was in that household.

Parents couldn't agree over the education or discipline issues and the
father couldn't bear the blame for "faulty genes."  The parents
divorced. Dad went off on some addiction.  I think both parents are
getting their lives in order with their new spouses.  Don't know how the
two daughters are faring.

Judy Ritchie

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