Dear Friends:
    I am making a presentation on abuse and  breastfeeding. I was thinking 
that the mother should breastfeeding, the parents  and immediate family can do 
skin-to-skin, the parents can co-sleep, and anyone  in the community or village 
can hold. In this way, the baby's world imprints on  the baby.
    The problem in the USA, and probably other cultures  where mothers 
routinely leave their babies to earn money, is that the mother is  expected to do 
all these things, with little or no village. This is another  reason she burns 
out, and may quit breastfeeding because she has too much to  do.
    What do you all think?
    warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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