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To: John Carragher who wrote (214624)	8/5/2007 2:25:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 793983

:-) It's an easy step to take (that one to the dark side). I don't want to win- and I certainly don't want to say mom's who can't breast feed are all bad (and they aren't bad at all if they don't have a choice, and simply cannot breastfeed for medical reasons). All I want you to remember of my position, if you want to take anything away from it, is that breast feeding is far superior, and many people are weak when it comes to long term commitments and some initial pain in the start up of a procedure. I am for strong encouragement at public hospitals (mandated strong encouragement) at the beginning of a child's life for the mother to breast feed that child, because breastfeeding isn't easy, and it is a commitment, and the downhill path is certainly to just throw in the towel and reach for the bottle (what private hospitals do, if they receive no government money, is their business). If mom's make the wrong decision on this they can't go back. Once the breast milk is gone, it's pretty much gone. I don't think nurses get to follow patients home and spy on them to make sure they are nursing- I'm only talking about what public hospitals do in the public hospital itself. I'm out for the rest of the day. Enjoy your Sunday.