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yelling at the tv
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Susan Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 27 May 2009 20:06:53 -0700
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... also the radio, novels, short stories, the odd poem, occasional store displays ...

I think my family would prefer cursing.  Instead I spout stats and colorful analogies unappreciated by teens.  We haven't had tv reception for a few years and recently it's leaking back so there may be more talking to the box.

Years ago when my daughter was about four the two of us walked in on a television program featuring a birth.  I thought we were about to enjoy a lovely mother-daughter moment when the "birth" suddenly turned into an "emergency C section."  I'll never forget my young daughter jumping up and down screaming "No cutting!  No cutting!"  My daughter is the product of a C section but at that young age had already heard and understood quite a bit on the subject, listening to circles of women while playing.  I strongly suspect, and hope, she has normal birth and breastfeeding experiences ahead of her!

Susan Johnson MFA, IBCLC, RLC
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
Judy made me chuckle when she mentioned in a post "It's what I yell at the
TV every time this is covered  ..."

Lactnet has been so darned serious lately -- let's lighten it up a bit.

How many of us habitually yell at the TV when breastfeeding (or formula use)
are mentioned?

I plead guilty as to TV ... and the newspaper.

-- 
Liz Brooks JD IBCLC
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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Not only do I admit to swearing loudly at the TV with every obvious 
ommission of breastfeeding, but my kids and husband blanch at the first 
sight of a bottle fed baby on TV as they know what the reaction is going 
to be! 

Karen Palmer
New Zealand




      

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