>Guilt??? The mother of smokescreens that cancels any rational discussion of
>the issues of infant feeding.
>Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC


I don't agree with this, Valerie...or perhaps I have misunderstood.

It seems to me that we are breastfeeding supporters, not laboratory
technicians, working with mothers as individuals from a variety of
social, economic and emotional contexts that will impact on their
feeding experience. The way in which we support women without making
them feel personally at fault  about decisions or choices that were
taken away from them, is a crucial to any discussion of how we
protect and promote breastfeeding....surely.

I repeat: I am in favour of mothers, at all stages, learning and
understanding the risks of infant formula. But to say, as someone did
here a few days, ago, that mothers who do not breastfeed 'should feel
guilty'  is to be on a different planet from the one I want to be on!
Why not purse our lips, sniff,  and tell them 'they should be ashamed
of themselves' and complete the job? <TIC>

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, UK

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