Heather

The piece your wrote was FANTASTIC!!!!   And brave.  Thank you.

You had challenged my assertion that we in the breastfeeding world 
were sometimes our own worst enemies.  And yesterday I had queued a 
message to LACTNET backing that up, but by chance (I'm finding my way 
around a new laptop!) it had been returned because I'd made an error 
in the subject, or the address, or something.  But what I'd been so 
disappointed about was that the Chairperson of a prominent UK 
breastfeeding support organisation was quoted in the last couple of 
days as saying "It's important to understand that the majority want 
to breastfeed and this isn't about convincing people who choose not 
to. We want families to choose what feels right for them and
to have the right information free from commercial influence that 
helps them make their choices."   So I bemoaned the promotion of the 
choice _not_ to breastfeed when we who should know, and actually DO 
know, that it results in poor health outcomes. I went on at some 
length about the need to speak up in defence of breastfeeding as a 
health matter.

So you definitely spoke up.  Your riposte was amazing!  And 
clever.  And very timely.  And, as I say, brave. It gives me hope!

Pamela Morrison IBCLC
Rustington, England
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We have had three or four days of poison on line and in print media 
about Jamie Oliver.

I wrote a response to an especially vicious 'opinion piece'.

A colleague posted it on her blog.

<http://theconfidentmother.co.uk/jamie-oliver-breastfeeding-rebuttal/>http://theconfidentmother.co.uk/jamie-oliver-breastfeeding-rebuttal/

Heather Welford Neil, UK  


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