Jan wrote:

>What is interesting is that people will discuss how breastfeeding needs to be
>done in private like other bodily functions,

>understand that this is EATING, and one EATS in public.

Maybe the problem is that the emphasis in the objection is that the MOTHER
is doing the breastfeeding as a bodily function.  SHE is not eating.
Perhaps if we refer to baby as the one doing the action of eating, the focus
could be changed.  Instead of ,"I'm feeding my baby," we could say, " My
baby is eating.

"I'm not naive enough to believe that overnight our nation will collectively
say, "Oh, so that is what is going on.  We were sorely mistaken." But it
might make a difference to some people.

I think we've all worked with moms who want their babies to be breastfed,
even though they don't want to breastfeed. To them there is a distinct
difference. A few problems do arise in these situations, of course.

Patricia Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee


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