In a message dated 5/21/2004 2:26:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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We have to be sensitive and aware, that we are dealing with women's
bodies, that breastfeeding is a political and cultural issue in a way
that wearing a cycle helmet just isn't....that feeding choices have a
*history* of being influenced in all sorts of ways (see Gabrielle
Palmer)....that any individual woman may have a personal and
highly-charged issue pertaining to her own breasts over and above the
'accident' of belonging to a particular 'place' in time.
Heather, are you saying that because of the long history and influences of
the formula industry that we cannot discuss with mothers the risk of formula
feeding?

You wrote:
    Healthcare professionals' own attitudes to bf are filtered through
this political/historical/cultural lens, in a way which is totally
unlike their attitude to cycle helmets.

We, in the lactation community and health care arena, need to work on
changing out attitudes so they reflect science not feelings and money.
What I think is important is not making someone feel forced into changing
their style of teaching.  Each person needs to adjust to change at their own
comfortable pace.  But we do need the change and reverse the
political/historical(which only dates to the development of formulas)/and culture lens.
Ann Perry RN, IBCLC
Boston, MA

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