>
>Doesn't it sound great?  As a USAian immigrated into this country, I 
>thought wow, how fabulous, until I realised that health visitors 
>knew nothing much about breastfeeding and the weighing clinic is 
>pretty much like your local cattle market -- pen em up and weigh em 
>and hose em down and out.  Years later, as a researcher I reentered 
>the clinic and sadly failed to change this assessment.



I had to laugh, ruefully, at this assessment of the British 'baby 
clinic' - it is *just* like that, with mothers and babies processed, 
rather than empowered and valued.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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