About to start abusing the listmother prerogative of sending as many
posts as she can write in one day.
Fay, and Pat - and Henya!
The milk is important, but it's easier to find a substitute for the
milk than for the arms and the person whose arms they are.  I am
distressed whenever I see a young baby lying in a pram with a bottle,
no one holding the baby or the bottle.  No idea how long it takes for
bottle-fed babies to be left alone to drink their milk, but it is
totally acceptable to be out and about here with the baby and not hold
it while it is drinking from a bottle, even if it's a baby who can't
sit on its own.  I can't recall the last time I saw a parent of either
gender in public, holding a bottle fed baby in an en face position.  I
wouldn't even be slightly less bothered if it was guaranteed to be
expressed milk in the bottle.  Guess that's what we mean when we say
it's not about the milk. Yes, that too, but the holding is VITAL.
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand,  Norway, where many parents haven't heard they are
responsible for upholding the myth that we are Breastfeeding Champions
of the World :-P

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