>I wish that we would say "risks of infant formula" rather than "risks of not
>breastfeeding."  I am very opinionated about this and I am not sure I will
>ever understand the need to say in the same breath "risks" and "breastfeeding."
>It may be the politically correct approach and yet I think its sophistication
>maybe its own undoing.

I really like Valerie's point.  "How To Talk So Kids Will Listen" urges
readers not to say things like, "You're not stupid, you just didn't have the
information."  What the listener hears is "you" and "stupid," and the
impression of stupidity gets reinforced, not dispelled.  Might we be doing
something similar when we talk about "the risks of not breastfeeding"?

>I have found, however, that with many of the people that I work with, if you
>tell them there are risks associated with infant formula, they assume they need
>to use a different substitute for human milk/breastfeeding.

Another good point, Linda.  So we need a way of conveying that "tailored
milk" - if not by mothers then at least by industry - is the only
appropriate food, but that the industry-tailored model is a distant
fourth...

>I want to go on record (yes, again) as saying that I am very concerned with the
>tendency to only accept one way of talking about breastfeeding.

And yet another good point, Jo-Anne!  Let's save *everyone's* creative
approaches and know that there's a lot more strength in a rope than there is
in a single strand :-)

--
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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