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Pam Wiggins <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:00:26 -0500
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        The mother is afraid she will not be able to give the second child
enough love and attention so she bottle-feeds. I've heard this lame excuse
also.
How about the feelings of that child when she grows up and thinks that mom
didn't love her enough to nurse her?  To her sister: "Mom loves you best.
She nursed you and didn't nurse me."  And she may also realize that during
her childhood she was sick a lot more often than her sister ...

Pam Wiggins, IBCLC, Franklin VA
website: http://www.bookzone.com/breastfeeding

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