Oh, I just love this post!!! It is so true. In our efforts to be supportive of everyone, to be politically correct and to not hurt someone else's feelings, we might do more harm than if we outright criticised. This is true for BFing as well as for birth choices. Just as the "balanced" pamphlet in the above article goes a long way in promoting artificial feeding, so is the OB who offers a more "balanced" approach but does not support a vaginal birth in this particular woman because of the baby's size (or previous c/s, or small pelvis or insert whatever other arbitrary reason) far more dangerous than the OB who outright says that he prefers c/s in general.

When I first started BFing DD and doing so in public, my apparently supportive father in law told me how he saw another woman BF in public and how impressed he was with how discreet she was. This really threw me for a while as i thought I should be seen as having that same level of skill. Until I came to myself (fortunately I am a pretty assertive person) and started thinking: hang on, why should I hide it? There is nothing shameful about it. I make no effort to hode it now. I WANT people to realise what I'm doing (doesn't mean I have to jiggle my boobs in public, but if they do cop an eyeful by accident, it's not the end of the world. I WANT it to become commonplace again to see women BFing their children (not necessarily only newborns either).

I do not judge women who don't BF. I do not feel that they are guilty of anything. I also don't believe that they are not smart enough or anything. But I do feel that our society has failed them. Even if they don't realise it themselves.

Thanks for sharing this article. It is a gem.

Alex