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laurie, you are right to question this approach.

this "don't rock the boat, moms will come around when they are ready" type of
thing would only be a positive approach in a hospital where there were no
bottles, no formula, no pacifiers, no well-baby nursery, and the only bottles
were for babies whose mothers brought them in before the birth, having made a
conscious decision to not breastfeed. a laissez-faire approach to feeding
choice is a tacit approval of formula feeding, because the deck is stacked
against the baby when these things are available. the mere availability of
these things (bottles etc.) condones their use.

to me, this just means that at this hospital they are even more aware that
they aren't supporting breastfeeding. but then, that's also true of every
hospital that has (see list) bottles etc. and there is just no way to claim
that this is not true. sorry. you just can't have it both ways.

except, of course, that its the LCs in the hospitals where i am that give out
the bottles and formula, and SO enthusiastically. i keep wondering if i have
not read the ethics section that THEY have read or if maybe i have some sort
of complete misunderstanding of what it is i do?

think about it this way. for some lucky few, birth is a physical event like
no other. or maybe it is at least like great sex. but if the mom and dad
light up a cigarette to celebrate, would the nurses just "let it go"?

carol brussel IBCLC

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