>mothers who exclusively pump who have said they feel "discriminated against" >by lactation professionals, or looked down upon with disdain, because >they're not breastfeeding. Heather responded: <<Oh.....but this is an echo of what formula feeding mothers say, and I believe it does *not* come from bf supporters or professionals, in the main. Much of it comes from inside the mother.> How insightful, Heather. I can really identify with that last statement. We adopted our sixth child, at the age of one month, 30 years ago, when I was still nursing her 2.5 year old sister. Not much was known then, compared to now, about adoptive nursing, relactation, or building milk supply. After several one-week long attempts, that were upsetting to her because of what I didn't know NOT to do, I came to the conclusion these attempts were not beneficial to our long-term mother child relationship. Because of what was going on inside of me, I avoided my very dear LLL friends for 8 whole months because I didn't want to hear any encouragement after I had made my firm decision to feed formula. I did bottlefeed her in a much more "breastfeeding" manner than I had my first 3, whom I had stopped with at 5-10 days. All the same, I would like to develop more and better ways to approach such a mother, and all the mothers I contact, with the "breastfeeding process" benefits. I would like to hear more about how others weave this in. Diane, do you have any new info sheets in the works? Or do you see this situation as a good use for your sheet "Better Than Breastfeeding"? Jean ************* K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC Dayton, Ohio USA *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html