a bunch of my work friends have had babies recently. peds/obs aren't clueless any more. the drum beat is for breastfeeding, these days, and you're considered out of it, and possibly selfish and maybe even a bad parent, if you don't breastfeed.
i have noticed among the home birthers that they have been fed a bizarre myth that the birth process in hospitals is still a lot like it was in the 1950s. oiy. it's kind of scary that they feed families this mythology in order to shore up their sense that anyone who chooses anything other than home birth are icky people.
At 04:29 PM 8/30/2011, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>I don't understand. La Leche is about breast feeding babies. You call them
>because you're interested in breast feeding your baby, and if there are
>any problems, your pediatrician/obstetrician is clueless. I don't see how
>that's dogmatism. They were incredibly helpful: we had a common goal.
>
>Why should they not be upset if mother's milk becomes toxic?
>
>What am I missing here?
>
>Joanna
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>
>Joanna, in my experience, if there is any group on earth more dogmatic
>and sectarian than the Trotskyists, it is La Leche. One point the
>anti-nuclear testing peole would sometimes make was that strontium 90
>had gotten into women's milk. La Leche people went ballistic over that.
>
>Carrol
>
>On 8/30/2011 12:30 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> > I can answer ravi's question: La Leche League
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Wojtek S"<wsoko52 at gmail.com>
> >
> > Question to ravi: can you give me an example of an institution or a
> > social movement that is not manipulated by elites or wannabe elites?
> > I cannot think of any.
> >
> > Wojtek
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