Heather writes:
>I feel there is scope for a newsgroup or bulletin board or emailing list
>for mothers to find support from each other, and to access some good
>information that would help them understand *why* they didn't manage to bf
>, though not by making them feel bad that they didn't 'try' hard enough or
>'fight' hard enough.

There is such a group.  Http://www.internetbabies.com/mobi

I found them instrumental in helping me get the courage to try again and
regaining the faith in my body, that there wasn't something wrong with me
or my baby (still going strong at 3 mos... I know that's nothing but here
in Quebec you only have to bfeed 3 months to be able to be a bf counseling
volunteer with nourri source and most of those women are supplementing
quite heavily with formula).  Some have accused them of being a
"Bottlefeeding without Guilt" fanclub but that hasn't been seen since it's
very earliest days.  Beverly Morgan hangs out there as do a couple other
LCs I have seen from here and have helped these women tremendously.  Some
are still partially nursing, some are nursing a second (or third) child,
some aren't nursing at all.  But the point is all of them are unsatisfied
with their nursing relationships.

and there is *no* mincing about bf being best, after all, why on earth
would we all have been so depressed if there were no differences between bf
and bottlefeeding?  why on earth would we have pumped endlessly taken weird
drugs that make us depressed taped tubes to our breasts or put sillicone
over them if there was no difference?  It's actually quite insulting to
many of the women there to say there's little difference, as if all the
work we went through was for nothing or some earth mother fantasy.

-wendey (studying LC in Montreal, soon to be nourri source volunteer!)

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