Dear Friends:
    Many excellent posts about the reasons today's young woman doesn't get
the right information. All are true.
    Women are given incorrect information from the healthcare system for one.
Part of my private practice is dealing with the screw-ups induced by
hospitals where women learn they MUST feed baby every TWO hours, which means waking a
sleeping baby and battling. Women are also told to give bottles of formula
because 'the baby is loosing weight and you don't want your baby dehydrated, do
you?" They are also advised: "You've got to ram your baby's head and mouth onto
your breast." But don't sleep with your baby, and let us take your baby to
the nursery at night so you can get some rest.
    Women don't see breastfeeding because the essence and etiquette of public
breastfeeding is being discreet, which means no one, not even young girls,
see easy and comfortable breastfeeding.
    Women, and men, are taught to comply from the beginning, in schools.
Don't question authority. How would you know if authority is giving you the right
advice when you rarely see otherwise?
    Women see only scary things about birth, and notice that everyone they
know is using epidurals. Women are targeted by clever marketing which sets them
up to be consumers, and to surrender or loose their own abilities and talents.
    As always, there are many aspects to any answer. Thank you Chayn from
Israel, for starting a great discussion. We sure have our work cut out for us.
    warmly,
    Nikki Lee

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