I am often excited by posts I read here on lactnet, but this one came at a
very opportune time.  I have been considering and rewriting (in my head)  a
similar post, about women who are choosing to pump and bottle feed
breastmilk to their babies for a long time.  I have met at least a half
dozen women in the past 3 or 4 months that have made the same choice and am
so confused about why.  I think that sometimes in our excitement to share
the benefits of breastmilk, we often skip over the benefits of
breastfeeding.  I often wonder if I, or my collegues at WIC, who are very
supportive and knowlegable about breastfeeding, inadvertantly stress only
part of the picture.  I find these situations very frustrating and I have
never been able to change a mom's mind once she embarked on that course.
Reassurance comes to me only when I realize that it is perhaps better for
these babies to get some breastmilk than none at all and that surely would
have been the case if the pumping-bottlefeeding didn't work out or if it
never crossed their minds.   Anyone out there have any ideas about things to
say to mom's who choose this route.  Any help would be appreciated!

Barbara Leshin-Zucker, IBCLC
Highland Mills, NY