> BTW, saw a mom this morning who is on the fence about breastfeeding/formula
> feeding.  I tried to querie her a bit about the indecision.  Well, it turns
> out, her mother, a cardiac care RN, had told her that breastfeeding was just
> awful -- that women got lumps in their breasts, they bled, they were in
> excruciating pain all the time, that it was basically a dreadful experience.
> What hope do I have in trying to sway her opinion?  (Right now, not much).
> Jan B, in cold & blustery Wheaton

Have her go to a LLL or similar meeting with lots of moms and babies happily
nursing. I suppose the grandmother-to-be had a bad experience herself. The
mom-to-be needs to see and talk to breastfeeding moms who enjoy(ed) doing so,
who might have had problems but had/got ways to overcome them.
Good luck to both you (convincing the mom:-)  ) and her.
Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, Maaseik, Belgium
http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac
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