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Magda Sachs <[log in to unmask]>
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>Genuine question: are the circumstances where a mother in the US is
truly *not allowed* to breastfeed? In the UK, too, there has been at
least one high profile case where a mother was told she coud not bf
her baby (b/c of HIV) and she had to escape/try to escape social
services who were attempting to take her baby into care.<

Heather, if this is the Camden case you are thinking of, these details are
incorrect.  (It might not be this case, of course, and if not, I would be
interested in knowing more.)  In the Camden Case the only order the court
made was for hiv testing on the little girl -- what they might have done
about breastfeeding or antiretrovirals if the test had been negative or
positive remains speculative.  The parents fled in order to avoid having
their daughter tested.

In the USA Kathleen Tyson's son Felix was made a ward of court in the State
of Oregon and he was allowed to live with his parents as long as he was
given antiretroviral medication and his mother did not breastfeed (the state
sent social workers to check for evidence of bottlefeeding).  There have
been several *brilliant* write ups of this in Mothering Magazine, in 1999
and late last year.  At least some of the first lot are on their website (I
know they have revamped it a few months ago, I think you have to search in
archived articles -- try 'hiv').

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK

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