Barbara Wilson Clay wrote: "However, I am interested in one of Cynthia's comment:  "Losses related to childbearing are poorly supported in
the US (and I suspect in most Western or Westernized societies)."  I hate to keep harping on this subject, but again, I think it continues to repeat a fiction we tell
ourselves that  in more "natural" less modern settings women's needs are better attended to.  I suspect it is the opposite, and that in general there is much more sensitivity now in more stable, affluant societies than in bygone days for the griefs that women experience in reproduction."

Barbara's point is a very good one. However, the perception that I have repeated that "fiction" is actually an accidental misreading of my post. I intentionally spoke only of the cultures--Western and Westernized--with which I am most familiar and on which I can comment on with some confidence without looking through my seven 3-inch-thick ring binders of articles about culture and breastfeeding/parenting and several books on the subject. To state that childbearing losses are poorly supported in the US (and probably in most Western or Westernized societies) is *not* to state that they are well supported in all other societies. It depends on the society and the point in history. Somewhere, I have a book addressing pregnancy loss, culture, and history. And, if my memory serves me correctly, Mothering magazine has published an article addressing pregnancy loss and culture. There is at least some variation. How much and what kind? Without undertaking serious study over a long period of time, I couldn't say. Which is why I didn't say in the first place. But that's OK. The fact that there is no "natural" utopia anywhere is still a useful part of this conversation.

Warmly,

Cynthia

Cynthia Good Mojab, MS, IBCLC, RLC
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