Thank you for posting this, Nikki. As sad as it made me (and many others I'm
sure) feel, your story helped me put things in perspective. I often get
helping calls from Indian women living here in the US, and have never really
stopped to consider just what a different place they may be in from me.
(Oddly, most of them call having difficulties with breastfeeding girl
babies. Hmmm, makes me wonder.) When you wrote: <Breastfeeding is not her
concern now; she said, "Maybe next time." Maybe if she delivers a son?>, I
couldn't help think of that photo of a Pakistani mother holding her boy/girl
twins -- the fat, healthy breastfed boy and the malnourished, sickly
bottle-fed girl. :(

http://www.whale.to/w/baby_milk2.html

Karen Meade, LLL Leader
RN student, IBCLC wannabe -- and mom to 3 breastfed children, including
toddler nursling Daniel who nursed standing up this morning while I met with
two SLPs about my older son's language skills!

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