I certainly understand what medicalized childbirth can be but I am 
interested in what the poster feels "medical breastfeeding" is.

It seeme to me if the mother perserveres through whatever the problems 
might be that she encounters with her infant's ability to latch and 
successfully, and she is successful, the outcome is the same as it would 
be for another mother/baby couplet who do not happen to encounter any 
problems. Both mothers end up with a successfully nursing baby, both of 
whom are receiving breastmilk as an exclusive diet.

This could be a totally unmedicated birth with a baby who has never nursed 
well (for whatever reason) or a succesfully nursing baby whose mother has 
had every birth intervention know to us.

So I guess I am asking why it matters whether or not breastfeeding 
is "medicalized" as long as the outcome is an exclusively nursing baby.

Betsy Riedel RNC, IBCLC

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