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As a bf counsellor I got in touch with a young mother of a 1yo son who
she's breastfeeding. The mother has told med she has grown up in a
dysfunctional famliy herself , she has "severe AD/HD" and a rather
chaotic life. She finds herself she has problems to bond with her son,
but in breastfeeding, babywearing aso she finds peace and connects
with her baby. She doesn´t mind being woken up 2-7 times per night to
breastfeed her son back to sleep.
The social welfare authorities though don't understand but wishes that
she weans and starts her son on gruel (traditional baby Swedish food)
and want her to feed her son a porridge meal "so that he'll sleep
through the night". They also criticize her for spoiling him and
seeing to her own needs instead of his. I know I have seen somewhere
that in a dysfunctional mother-child relation breastfeeding could from
the child's point of view be the only "normal" way to relate to its
mother. Do you recognze that? Where do I find more about it?

Marit Olanders

bf counsellor in Sweden and the author of the book Amning i vardagen
(Breastfeeding in Everyday life) that is to be released in Sweden in
March 2013

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