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Breastfeeding article
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So what do people think about this article from the guardian?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/07/breastfeeding-women-bottle-feeding-problem?CMP=twt_gu
"By judging mothers’ choices, we reinforce the idea that women can’t be trusted to decide what’s right for their bodies"
In my view she definitely has a point. I feel sympathy for all women who have their choices judged, but I especially feel for those who get criticised for not breastfeeding. I think it's important that women are informed of all the facts surrounding the benefits of breastfeeding, but beyond that it's nobody else's business.
For people who want to, but can't... I imagine it must be really distressing to have all this criticism floating around from various sources.
What do people think?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/07/breastfeeding-women-bottle-feeding-problem?CMP=twt_gu
"By judging mothers’ choices, we reinforce the idea that women can’t be trusted to decide what’s right for their bodies"
In my view she definitely has a point. I feel sympathy for all women who have their choices judged, but I especially feel for those who get criticised for not breastfeeding. I think it's important that women are informed of all the facts surrounding the benefits of breastfeeding, but beyond that it's nobody else's business.
For people who want to, but can't... I imagine it must be really distressing to have all this criticism floating around from various sources.
What do people think?
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A lot of my friends have told me how they wanted to breastfeed but that 'it wasn't working'. Maybe I'm being presumptuous but I became convinced it 'wasn't working' either. I was fortunate enough to have an old contact who is a lactation consultant in my email list who gave me all the facts and told me that this long, hard slog was normal. Without that I'd think my boobs 'didn't work' either.
Women need the nitty gritty info of how shit it can be at the beginning so they can start having faith in their own bodies. Not the watered down 'it either works, or it doesn't'. That makes it seem as if breastfeeding is some sort of innate power only some women have when really for a lot of women it's something to be learnt and perfected for mum and baby.
If HV's and other professionals are short sighted enough to cast it off as a personal failing on some poor knackered mum then they are an idiot. Adequate support and no bull shit real info is what is needed. Not judgements and tuts.