Re: breastfeeding rants was Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] champagne moment...
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In a message dated 4/5/00 11:26:51 PM Central Daylight Time,
squeaksoup@... writes:
<< << some people physically can't breastfeed >>
This is very rare. Maybe 1-2% of women. >>
Don't discount those who physically can not. I am amongst them, and it can
be a very difficult, traumatic thing. I suffer from post traumatic stress
disorder because of the events leading me to be unable to breastfeed this
child. It resulted in my clinical death. I relive the horror almost nightly
in nightmares. You can't imagine how painful it is to be sneered at and
attacked because of it. I don't think I have ever met a more cruel,
exclusive group than dogmatic breastfeeders.
By the way, it doesn't really matter how many women are physically unable to
breastfeed. If you (generic you, not any one in particular) can, then that's
all you need to be concerned about. Great! ! More power to ya, mazeltov, and
here's a big attagirl. And if you can't, and your baby is happy and healthy
on formula then Great! More power to ya, mazeltov, and a big attagirl to you
too. Both of you are great moms. Frankly, I don't need to know how you feed
your baby. I've got plenty of my own business to be concerned about.
*** KiM ***
runs with scissors
squeaksoup@... writes:
<< << some people physically can't breastfeed >>
This is very rare. Maybe 1-2% of women. >>
Don't discount those who physically can not. I am amongst them, and it can
be a very difficult, traumatic thing. I suffer from post traumatic stress
disorder because of the events leading me to be unable to breastfeed this
child. It resulted in my clinical death. I relive the horror almost nightly
in nightmares. You can't imagine how painful it is to be sneered at and
attacked because of it. I don't think I have ever met a more cruel,
exclusive group than dogmatic breastfeeders.
By the way, it doesn't really matter how many women are physically unable to
breastfeed. If you (generic you, not any one in particular) can, then that's
all you need to be concerned about. Great! ! More power to ya, mazeltov, and
here's a big attagirl. And if you can't, and your baby is happy and healthy
on formula then Great! More power to ya, mazeltov, and a big attagirl to you
too. Both of you are great moms. Frankly, I don't need to know how you feed
your baby. I've got plenty of my own business to be concerned about.
*** KiM ***
runs with scissors
Tracy Oldfield
A study by the NCT, biggest childbrith and breastfeeding
support org in Britain, found that 95% of women could lactate, for many of those
who couldn't it was due to breast surgery. Some bf counsellors have
estimated 97-98%. But whatever it is, it's a low percentage of the
population, who have every right to be thankful for the hygiene standards and
ongoing reseach to improve formula which we have in Western, 'First-world'
society (and in some cases, angry at the doctors who performed surgery without
explaining this risk.)
Tracy, who knows that any stats can be manipulated by those
who produce them.
----- Original Message -----From: susanSent: Monday, April 10, 2000 10:32 AMSubject: Re: breastfeeding rants was Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] champagne moment...hi,
i'm always suspicious of stats. particularly regarding women.
jmo,
susan
austin, tx
'unity through diversity'
squeaksoup@... wrote:
> In a message dated 4/5/00 19:15:48 Uhr, [email protected]
> writes:
>
> << some people physically can't breastfeed >>
>
> This is very rare. Maybe 1-2% of women.
>
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