I am an assistant professor of special education at a small liberal arts
college in Maryland.  After class today I was chatting with a couple of
young, female students.  They were asking the whereabouts of a colleague who
was no longer at the college.  I told them that she left to become a doula
and childbirth educator.  This started a conversation about all things birth
and breastfeeding.  We talked about home birth, unnecessary birth
interventions, the medicalization of pregnancy and birth, induced lactation,
relactation, adoptive nursing, cross nursing, wet nursing, human milk for
other medical purposes, and more.  They were so open and interested in
everything and the only thing that blew their minds (in a positive way) was
the concept of inducing lactation for adoption and, for one, the idea that
someone else could provide milk for her future baby if she was unable (not
that she wouldn't have enough milk but if she died her baby could still get
human milk through donation).  I have never seen anything like it!  There is
hope!  Their interest and enthusiasm was lovely to see.

 

Kathy

Retired IBCLC, LLLL and Lactnet list mother


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