Dear colleagues:

My seven year old daughter listens keenly to any conversation around her. I was discussing the US Breastfeeding Campaign today with my husband, talking about rhetoric and images ("risks" versus "benefits"), cultural and biological norms, conflicts of interest, the financial interests of manufacturers of artificial substitutes for breastfeeding, etc. She told me "Mama, you have to tell people about the risks of artificial feeding. You have to tell them in California, and Washington, and Texas and even Illinois. You need to call up the formula companies and get them to come to La Leche League meetings and you need to tell them 10,000 times that breastfeeding is good and fun and formula feeding has risks. You need to get everyone you know to call up the formula companies and get them to come to La Leche League meetings. We don't want babies getting sick and getting hospitalized. You need to tell them 10,000 times so they will know and they will listen. They think that breastfeeding isn't fine! You need to tell the formula companies that they need to go to Breastfeeding College so they can learn that breastfeeding is absolutely fine and that formula feeding has risks."

I told her that I'm working on it. : )

Cynthia

Cynthia Good Mojab, MS, IBCLC, RLC
Ammawell
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