Linda wrote:
>Many people still don't equate "breastfeeding" with "eating." Our =
>parents might have "breastfed" because it was a nice thing to do, =
>comforting, etc. but also FED (my emphasis) their babies with something =
>else because that's what they were told to do.

I think we often get the opposite to this too. That breastfeeding is just a
way of getting food into the baby (and therefore is equivalent to
bottle-feeding), and people not realising that breastfeeding is far more
than this.

Joy Anderson IBCLC, NMAA Breastfeeding Counsellor
Perth, Western Australia
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