I just want to thank everyone for being part of lactnet--I so enjoy
reading all your comments.  It has really been keeping me going.  I seem
to be falling off my soapbox regularly lately, but with you all for
support, I'm not too bruised.  (Finally offered today to buy some
opaque bins to keep the abm samples we keep around just in case someone
needs to feed a baby and doesnt have supplies....we have a strict "no
sample policy" for everything else around here!) Thanks for keeping me
cognizant of why I am and need to be a zealot.

I'm especially enjoying the co-sleeping comments and cultural
observations.  My 5 year old son has slept all night in his own bed 3
times in his whole life. He even sleeps with Grandma on occasion(!),
something I wasn't allowed.   He has also never had an attachment object
(besides me, that is) and didn't suck his thumb except for
the first couple of weeks I went back to work. Fortunately, I realized
quickly what *that* was about.  Even he is sensitive to bottles as
symbols of babies, and is pleased to notice when babies, whether human or
other mammals, are breastfeeding.  I think we're
changing this culture one child at a time--slow work but so worthwhile.

--
Anne Montgomery, M.D.
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Olympia, WA