Now this is interesting.

There are, as we know, professionals who like to promote the view that
breastmilk and formula milk are the same. They say we shouldn't make
mothers feel guilty by telling them any different, and they are often
scornful of the idea that bf  promotes closeness and love..."are you saying
that formula feeding mothers don't get close to their babies or something?"

Are these the *same* professionals who want to prevent birth mothers from
bf their soon-to-be adopted babies because bf will make them too close to
their babies? Or who discourage adoptive mothers from inducing lactation
because if the adoption doesn't work out the bf will have made them too
close?

I only ask.

I think the two seemingly-contradictory positions come from the *same mindset*.

It's anti-women, it's anti-liberty and it's certainly anti-baby.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne