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Date: | Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:58:40 EST |
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Dear Friends:
I heard that breastfeeding experts were not invited to create the new Ad
Campaign, because they would have been too nice and too gentle. "Advantages
of breastfeeding" doesn't alarm people; "Hazards of formula" or "Risks of not
breastfeeding" does.
After being professionally slapped for posting Linda Smith's 'Risks of
human milk substitute' teaching packs in a hospital, and for teaching clients
in childbirth class that the choices they made in birth would have an impact
on the outcome, I chose not to speak truth in certain situations. I wanted to
keep my job. I learned to egg-walk so as not to upset people, staff even
more than clients.
Suzanne Arms has talked about the importance of speaking truth; one can
do that with a loving heart. This is a way to make change and preserve one's
integrity.
It is terribly difficult also.
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative
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