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Bingo. And thank you, Virginia. Human milk needs to become a status symbol cross-culturally and breastfeeding, more importantly, needs to be the "look" women seek as mothers.
One of the grand things about promoting breastfeeding over human milk is that we are promoting mothering and empowerment over a commodity. If we associate, say, the physical holding of an infant, for example, with breastfeeding rather than "only" a quantity or quality of milk I think we gain greater ground.
More and more I see recognition of the innumerable components of the nursing relationship as a way of breaking down *breastfeeding* into steps anyone might embrace. A mother who sees herself anywhere on the continuum of the breastfeeding relationship is seeing herself as a breastfeeding mother. She is one step closer to other mothers rather than one step further apart.
Susan Johnson MFA, IBCLC, RLC
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
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Until human milk becomes a status symbol...
Virginia
Dr Virginia Thorley, OAM, PhD, IBCLC, FILCA
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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