----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diane Wiessinger" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:26 PM
Subject: [LACTNET] mother's right, child's right


"Every mother has a right not to breastfeed - it's her body.  Surely the 
issue is if the child then has a right to human milk?"

We can probably take care of that right over time, by ramping up milk banks 
and/or figuring out how to can human milk.  Not a perfect solution but way 
better than formula, of course.  But what about a child's right to his first 
human relationship - breastfeeding?  That's a much more subtle right and 
vastly more difficult to secure, but just possibly the more important issue 
overall.

No answers here, beyond improving birth so that more mothers will *want* to 
breastfeed, but I do worry that our culture completely forgets there's a 
relationship involved here, in its pursuit of the milk.

**Ah... Diane... thank you. I always feel so sad when breastfeeding is 
reduced to a product instead of seen as a uniquely reciprocal process, 
indeed the first relationship we all get to built upon in order to lay the 
foundations for all the relationships to come in the years ahead.

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY  USA
www.normalfed.com

**This is a new site, right...? Or didn't I pay attention with your last 
posts...? Looks great; I really love your approach and style of writing.

Warmly,

Marianne Vanderveen, Netherlands

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