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Shaya & Jessica Billowitz <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:45:09 +0200
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OK, slightly off topic, but...I was enjoying the thread about breastfeeding 
in literature, and I have a confession to make.  One of my favorite authors 
is Jodi Picoult, and in one of her books Harvesting the Heart, she has a 
whole scene in which she is trying to BF with no support, and clearly there 
are issues,  because her baby is fussy all the time, and she is falling into 
PP depression and ends up running away from her husband and baby because of 
all the stress and how demanding he was.  She had a LLL person come and say 
don't you dare give formula, etc. with all the stereotypes, and of course 
this did nothing to help her.  The rest of the plot for the book was her 
guilt, etc.
  Well, I confess.  I was busy diagnosing throughout the entire chapter- 
clearly he was not latched on well, eating every 15 minutes, etc and if she 
would have just hired a Lactation Consultant to give proper advice then the 
entire plot may have been changed.
Ok, now I am really going to embarrass myself.  I went to her website, 
emailed her, and told her that as an IBCLC I felt horrified with this whole 
chapter, and I hope she was not writing from a personal experience with bad 
Lactation help.  A proper LC would have helped and given support, recognized 
PP depression, etc. And that I was disappointed that she had "colored" the 
experience for all who read that book.
She wrote back that she did have a  very unpleasant experience after her 
first, and it was good to hear that it was not the typical.

Jessica Billowitz, IBCLC
Israel 

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