Quote From: ctheysSome mothers feel guilty when they cannot breastfeed. I wish they would feel angry and not guilty. While true that some mothers will not be able to exclusively breastfeed their babies, the most common problems are not the mothers fault. Mothers should be angry at: outdated hospital routines based on bottle feeding, uneducated doctors and nurses, well-meaning but misinformed friends and family, misleading "information" from companies that have a financial interest in a mothers failure to breastfeed. All these society complications make breastfeeding difficult, even impossible for some mothers and babies.
Educate yourself and your family. http://pregnancy.about.com/cs/breastfeedinginfo/a/aanho1.htm
http://www.LaLecheLeague.org
http://breastfeeding.com
http://promom.org
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/breastfeeding/
and I'm not angry that I wasn't able to breast feed. Imade the choice based on REASONS. To tell me to "educate yourself"implies I made a dicision that wasn't thought out & researched &/or an uniformed decision. It also implied that I was duped by many who didn't want to see me succeed at nursing. It's implying that to do anything different thanwhay you'd done is to be just uneducated & making an uniformed decision that I get angry with & the condesending ring there is to the posts. I might seem the same to you if I were to ask you if you'd had a problem comprehending what I'd said in the post you'd replied to. Or if I asked if you'd even read it?
I don't need to "educate" myself on the subject. I've not only done the reading but I've years of experience behind me with many people around me who've experiences too. That's the glory of age is that we've got *experience* as well as the research to back up what we're saying.
