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Be sure to read the comments--disturbing


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Posted Jan 18th 2008 8:05AM by Ada Calhoun
Filed under: Parenting



The latest breastfeeding trend: exclusively using a pump rather than nursing. According to this Babble dispatch by
Kate Tuttle, more and more women are choosing to give their baby breast
milk but not actually delivering it via the breast. One tragic reason
is a repulsion toward employing the sexualized breast in the context of
a baby:

 Although there are certainly some women who
exclusively pump because of such attitudes, most come to it
accidentally, through a combination of a bad start at nursing and a
conviction that breast milk is best, even if it doesn't come "straight
from the tap."

 We know a couple of
people who went this route because of physical problems. It seemed like
all the hard parts of breastfeeding with only one of the good parts
(the milk). So hats off to anyone who spend so much time hooked up to a
breast pump in order to get milk to their babies. Hear, hear, to Kate's
call for more and better lactation consultation at hospitals, and for
raising consciousness about the fact that breasts can actually be both
sexy and a source of food.

You can read the whole story here.




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