Interesting, Chayn...

Now the other side of perinatal issues: my almost 15-year old and her friend 
were discussing labour.
The friend, Rosa, said: "Every woman needs some kind of painkiller with 
childbirth. Otherwise you will DIE from pain!"
Says my daughter, quite cool: "Well... I don't think my mom had that with 
us."
Rosa: "Oh, SURE she did! You cannot do without! No way!"
My daughter again: "Yet I don't think she had painkillers."
She's right: I didn't. Four times I didn't. Four times I had an unmedicated 
homebirth.
Apparently, this is not bij everyone considered the normal thing to do or to 
happen...

Bye,

Marianne Vanderveen IBCLC, Netherlands

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "nandan fogelman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 4:48 PM
Subject: [LACTNET] breastfeeding as normal


> Dear Friends,
> The other day I was in the park with my younger children when two ten year
> old girls came walking over, one pushing a baby in a stroller.  They were
> apparently discussing feeding the baby and the one pushing the stroller
> mentioned formula.  Her friend said something I couldn't hear and she 
> said,
> "yes she [her mother] breastfeeds her [the baby] when she is home, when 
> she
> isn't home she pumps milk - she has a special machine, do you know about 
> it?
> The friend replied that ofcourse she knows about breastpumps (like duh, 
> who
> doesn't) and the two continued to a bench where I could no longer here
> them.  When I was 10 we were not talking about breastfeeding.  Things look
> good for the next generation!
> All the best,
> Chayn in Israel, IBCLC

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