On 4 May 2005 at 1:03, Barb Strange wrote:

> This woman is from Holland.  Although
> I am sure not every woman cross-nurses in the Netherlands, I think it
> very plausible that more do than in North America, and that it is not
> met with the consternation that it is so often here in N.A.  

I am sure it would be. I am Dutch, living in the Netherlands 
(Holland) and I would certainly be very, very upset if someone 
breastfed my child without my previous consent. I don't think I would 
even let my sister nurse my daughters, although I would have be happy 
to nurse her children if she had asked me to.

> Being of Dutch descent and perhaps of a rebellious
> nature, she perhaps thought a little breastfeeding wouldn't hurt, why
> not calm this crying child in such an easy manner?

I don't see any relation between being Dutch and nursing a strangers 
child. We have appalling breastfeeding rates. I think only mothers 
who breastfeed would even think of putting a baby on the breast to 
calm it. So that may be a factor, but not being Dutch... If she is 40-
something or 50 breastfeeding was not fashionable in her 'baby days'.

-- 
Heleen Hayes
www.xs4all.nl/~hhayes

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