Hi,
Gail said learned response from both mother and baby".
Ummmmm...May I say.....CRAP?
Well, yes and no! There's a fab article by Andrea on the Birth International
website about breastfeeding. But, given so many births in Australia are
screwed up, babies drugged or injured and mothers injured and frightened and
drugged. And without that natural cocktail of euphoric drugs on board. And
the fact few of us have ever seen babies being breastfed before we try it
with our own, breastfeeding then does become a learned art. Something that
is often learnt slowly and painfully.
I often sit with mothers (in my paid work I'm a lactation consultant and in
my volunteer life I'm a counsellor with the Australian Breastfeeding Assoc
counsellor) At the start it's slow, and painful for both mum and baby, but
in most cases it works out. Yet, it's great to see them a few weeks later
out at an Australian Breastfeeding Association meeting confidently
breastfeeding their baby.
I guess to sum up, breastfeeding is instinctual, but if you miss that boat,
you get another bite at the cherry - you can learn it as well.
Barb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gail McKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 3:51 PM
Subject: [ozmidwifery] Breastfeeding feedback
Hi All.
The feedback I've gotten so far seems to mirror what I instinctively
believe breastfeeding to be. Pamphlets that are distributed at the
hospital advocate breastfeeding as a "learned response from both mother
and baby". Ummmmm...May I say.....CRAP?
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