Valerie writes:

<<It fills us full of doubt and > disbelief.  Women should not have to make an
> emotional investment.  It is our society and our institutions that have to
> make the emotional investment.>>
>
Valerie you are right on!  When mothers tell me how much like a failure or
how inadequate they feel as a mother, I tell them they are not the failure
its our society that has failed them.

Warmly,
Pat Lindsey, IBCLC
Pediatrics Plus Staff LC  www.pedsplus.com
Private Practice www.PatLC.com

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