hi all,

2009/10/8 Rachel Myr <[log in to unmask]>:
>If the cultural expectation is also that it may be painful and difficult at first but it's worth sticking with >it, then I guess I should count my blessings, but I really don't buy it that all women should expect to >endure 'soreness, cracks, blood and tears'.

oh well, i guess there are a lot of women (and men) thinking that
breastfeeding always hurts and every mother ends up with sore nipples
for at least the first 2 or three weeks.
they don't ask "does it hurt" but "how much does it hurt".
and for many breastfeeding resembles some kind of martyrdom which has
to be "endured"...

nina
-- 
Because the Medieval Church, with the support of kings, princes and
secular authorities, controlled medical education and practice, the
Inquisition constitutes, among other things, an early instance of the
"professional" repudiating the skills and interfering with the rights
of the "nonprofessional" to minister to the poor. -Thomas Szasz, The
Manufacture of Madness-

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