Marit Olanders <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have permission to post.
> As a bf counsellor I got in touch with a young mother of a 1yo son who
> she's breastfeeding. The mother has told med she has grown up in a
> dysfunctional famliy herself , she has "severe AD/HD" and a rather
> chaotic life. She finds herself she has problems to bond with her son,
> but in breastfeeding, babywearing aso she finds peace and connects
> with her baby. She doesn´t mind being woken up 2-7 times per night to
> breastfeed her son back to sleep.
> The social welfare authorities though don't understand but wishes that
> she weans and starts her son on gruel (traditional baby Swedish food)
> and want her to feed her son a porridge meal "so that he'll sleep
> through the night". They also criticize her for spoiling him and
> seeing to her own needs instead of his. I know I have seen somewhere
> that in a dysfunctional mother-child relation breastfeeding could from
> the child's point of view be the only "normal" way to relate to its
> mother. Do you recognze that? Where do I find more about it?

Belated reply, sorry: could you please clarify whether you mean the
authorities are asking her to discontinue breastfeeding, or whether
they're asking her to begin complementing breastfeeding with solid
foods?  

Lara Hopkins

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