I'm coming into this very late (I have a very good excuse, I've been at a 
regional meeting for Asia on infant and young child feeding in emergencies- 
lucky me!) but I wanted to pop in and say that I agree with you, Pam we do 
need to convey how wonderful breastfeeding. However, I don't think that this 
means that we talk about the benefits or advantages of breastfeeding. All of 
the benefits/advantages can be reframed to describe the importance of 
breastfeeding and we can also talk about the risks of formula/early weaning 
etc. I think that we want to achieve two things: 1) Give reasons to 
breastfeed and 2) Give reasons not to use infant formula. IMO all 
breastfeeding promotion activities should aim to do both of these things.
Karleen Gribble
Australia


 Pamela Morrison wrote:
>> Does it depend on the audience?  I feel privileged to have had the 
>> life-changing experience of teaching teenagers about breastfeeding, and 
>> to feel the buzz that comes from reaching a few impressionable hearts and 
>> minds well before they need to make a decision about how to feed their 
>> future babies.  Some of the most challenging questions I've ever received 
>> from any audience were those during a schools presentation to 200 
>> Sixth-Form boys and girls, and their really novel questions showed they 
>> had really thought about the advantages vs the disadvantages of the 
>> breast/bottle controversy.
> 

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