Diane Wiessinger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Unless, of course, one counts the expense of expressing the
> milk, heating the milk, cooling the milk, possibly carrying fuel to heat the
> milk, feeding the milk in some way that involves cleaning *that* device -
> is all that considered expensive only if a man does it??  Whoever is
> responsible for a flip comment like this needs to be put in charge of a
> goat for a day - one that needs to be milked and the milk pasteurized
> and fed to a kid 8-12 times a day - and then let's hear him talk
> about the expense of repeating that job daily for 180 days.
(SNIP)

The first thing I thought of was what cultural/social ramifications are
there to treating breastmilk and feeding versus just simply
breastfeeding?  In a culture/society where a woman does not have the
right to insist her partner wear a condom to protect herself from
getting HIV/AIDS or many *thought* to have HIV/AIDS are cast out of the
family or village or worse, what chance does she have of putting this
*fix* into practice?
--
Monique
Noah 6/97, Melissa 6/23/00
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The same phrase describes my marriage and my breasts:
before the kids, they used to be such a cute couple.
Amy Krouse Rosenthall

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