Breast-feeding

[amalthia]

ok...so I'm on the third book in my journey of informed pre-conception motherhood (as I have began calling it).
"So, that's what they're for!"...an already amazing book written by a mother, journalist and lactation expert/consultant.

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[ashesngolddust]

There is not much I can add to this, except to say I agree with all of it. And as women, I think it's good for us to have some degree of anger toward how society thumbs it constantly. I think we have a responsibility to our natural gender identity, and I think we all should raise awareness that yes, being a woman and breastfeeding and everything else is what is natural to us because it literally is in our nature to do so.

I also agree that women have, since the beginning of existence, gone without silly medication, and I think it is really sad that it could potentially be taken as an attack on gender and nature to say that science and medicine has given a women an excuse to complain and make themselves weaker. I mean, I can't reduce this all to just PMS pills and Birth Control Pills, but if you think about it, when you strip down the gender issues, what do you have left? What makes a woman a woman.

In so many other ways women have fought for equality, and in some extreme cases almost gave me the sense of striving for a genderless (raceless, faceless.....) society. Damn.

But to treat breastfeeding as something to debate? Is society taking things a little too far? I mean, being PC about some things is okay, but there comes a point where you just have to stop and think about how extreme everything is. There is always *SOMEONE* who is going to be offended by something. So that gives society the right to take our freedoms away? (Our freedom to be women?!) Really. I don't think so.

How far is any of this going to get pushed before the people who actually make the rules care enough about something with really no profitable gain going to say, "Hey, this is stupid....."

Re: !!!!

[amalthia]

Thank you for comenting...i'm glad you agreed with my statements.
I posted this on an LJ forum that I belong to and got a few interesting responses.
I love the fact that I have found a lot of people who are having or planning to have children and feel as strongly about these issues as I do. It's important that the "mission" of keeping things that matter in the forground is not abandoned.
:)