Love it, Jane!  Thanks for injecting some humour into a heavy topic!

And, thinking more about it, it's actually brilliant!  I'm going to 
be presenting on the Right of the Baby to be Breastfed later this 
month (even more heavy, right?) and I'd love to quote you - would that be OK??

And just one more tiny thing.... I've been following all the 
conversations on this topic very closely.  One thing that's very 
striking in any discussion about infant feeding choice is that it's 
almost always presented from the mother's perspective - the mother 
has the right to choose, it's important to meet the mother where 
she's at, we must listen to the mother, and especially we mustn't 
make her feel guilty.  To the extent that the baby may not be 
mentioned at all. Either we're being _exceptionally_ manipulative 
when we do this, appearing to take the mother's part over the baby's 
as a mechanism to build a rapport with her so that she'll listen to 
us after all, or we're actually being a bit negligent because surely, 
when the chips are down, the  end-user of the mother's choice is the 
baby.  The decision the mother makes will profoundly affect the 
infant now, next week and for the rest of his life.  And surely the 
baby's health trumps the mother's emotional well-being, doesn't 
it?  But for some reason, we're mostly discouraged from ever saying this.

Pamela Morrison IBCLC
Rustington, England
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Date:    Wed, 4 Feb 2015 18:03:34 +0000
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Subject: Re: Feeding Babies and Green Hair

The point I would like to make, although it makes people cringe to 
hear an old gray-haired lady say it, is would you say "sex is 
best"?  It's just a normal human activity.  We don't think anything 
of it until there are problems.  Or competition.




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