lHolly wrote:  “Based on the number of posts and e-mails, (both on and off this list) that I generated with my half-baked rant I feel the need to clarify that it is not this discussion that is depressing me. What depresses me is the disaster that human beings have created that requires us to expend such tremendous amounts of energy and time simply to feed and nourish our young.”

Holly, what you expressed is something that many of us feel as well.  Frustration is something that comes with our work because we care so much.  I became a La Leche League Leader in 1977 and an IBCLC in 1985.  I have seen the rates of breastfeeding double, triple, and almost quadruple in the time since then; yet I'm still not satisfied because I would like it to be 100%.  When I occasionally want to give up, I think:  Very few people can do this work.  What would happen to the children, not to mention their mothers, if there were fewer of us to help them?  So, despite the frustration, I pick myself up and start all over again.  My hope is that you do the same.  Let's keep working to help resolve the breastfeeding problems that infants face; keep educating those who know less about breastfeeding than we do; keep learning as much as we can from those who know more than we do.  The results will be worth the effort.

Warmest regards,

Lee Galasso, MS, LLLL, IBCLC, RLC

Lactation Specialist, Lactation Center of Westchester/Putnam

Westchester County in NYS, USA

“Children Are Born with the Need to Breastfeed”

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Formula feeding is the longest-lasting uncontrolled experiment in the history of medicine.
~~ Frank Oski, MD; Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, 1985-1996


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