I worked briefly at a WIC agency that served almost entirely Hispanic
families.  I was there as an LC and we were trying to improve breastfeeding
support.  We were trying to establish a peer counseling program and I was
telling the staff about why we needed peer counselors - no family support like
there was traditionally, etc.  One of the nutrition aides, who was from
Mexico, was telling me afterwards that her mother had never been able to
breastfeed, and after what I had said she was thinking that maybe it was
because she was an orphan.  She told a very sad story about how her mother had
had 14 children and that more than half of them had died from diarrheal
disease.  But what she said that really stuck with me was "I remember so well
how they suffered!"  Somehow, when we talk about the devastation of artificial
feeding in developing countries (or developed countries for that matter),
this is something that never gets mentioned.  Yes, it costs more and is so
inconvenient to have a baby that gets sick more, but think of the poor baby!
Miriam