tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post1384827621292115126..comments2023-05-11T21:29:47.449-07:00Comments on One Of Those Women: The Case Against ReasoningAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13479061759803882187noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-48232974808185876232011-08-13T07:52:27.300-07:002011-08-13T07:52:27.300-07:00I am a bit slow on the draw (obviously), but I jus...I am a bit slow on the draw (obviously), but I just read this article and I wish I could stand up and applaud you over and over! It really is so amazing. Thank-you so much for writing it.<br /><br />I linked and quoted you on my blog and I hope that it's ok.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-23226223197369320412009-09-15T09:22:45.931-07:002009-09-15T09:22:45.931-07:00Great article. I love your point that "Guess ...Great article. I love your point that "Guess what? There are no benefits to breastfeeding." How true. As you say, it is the biological norm.Ejlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12045055920341838803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-33907234733656204702009-06-03T10:09:20.234-07:002009-06-03T10:09:20.234-07:00"breastfeeding has to be accepted, and suppor..."breastfeeding has to be accepted, and supported anywhere and everywhere, and mothers who wish their babies and children with them, have to be accommodated in public life."<br />Yes yes yes! This is what I have been saying for years. When people implied I shouldn't be breastfeeding my 1 yr old and should be out at homegroup at kiddy bedtime instead etc... Read more... it's not the breastfeeding that's the problem, it's that our culture segregates people into grown ups and children and never the twain shall meet. That's why I've felt excluded from adult society for the last 6 years!<br />Might be nicer to live like this http://www.rebozoway.org/articles/rwplife.htmKatherinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-23689204207904064152009-05-01T09:17:00.000-07:002009-05-01T09:17:00.000-07:00Excellent point! Really wish I'd had the help and ...Excellent point! Really wish I'd had the help and support through the nhs, nct, hv, anyone really!!! Struggled for 9 months with a dairy intollerant baby so I had a very limited diet too! Any chance you could stand for pm? :)Gillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-3363113577208748042009-05-01T02:04:00.000-07:002009-05-01T02:04:00.000-07:00I do like that! 'Breast is Biology'!I do like that! 'Breast is Biology'!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13479061759803882187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-11069286130217415702009-04-30T18:05:00.000-07:002009-04-30T18:05:00.000-07:00Thank you.
Perhaps rather than "Breast is Best" i...Thank you.<br /><br />Perhaps rather than "Breast is Best" if the PR spin wants the alliteration so badly we could have "Breast is Biology"?Ceilidh, Australianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-38108099417168628652009-04-30T14:59:00.000-07:002009-04-30T14:59:00.000-07:00Fantastic !Fantastic !Alliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10337237345037914521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-73574059426697252842009-04-30T14:45:00.000-07:002009-04-30T14:45:00.000-07:00Standing ovation for you! YES! This is the paradi...Standing ovation for you! YES! This is the paradigm shift that is needed. Thanks for all the time and energy you put into this article.<br /><br />Cheers!<br />AlexisAlexis Ahrenshttp://takingthelidoffthesun.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-52513178315270430422009-04-30T13:41:00.000-07:002009-04-30T13:41:00.000-07:00You are simply divine! How I love thee!You are simply divine! How I love thee!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12294200822108438623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-40667964007763220472009-04-30T13:12:00.000-07:002009-04-30T13:12:00.000-07:00I especially like your comment about educating mom...I especially like your comment about educating moms about the risks of not breastfeeding rather than the benefits of why they should. Makes much more sense. It's an educating-with-fear approach but I like it anyway.Melodiehttp://www.breastfeedingmomsunite.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-54016444215020818992009-04-30T12:04:00.000-07:002009-04-30T12:04:00.000-07:00Hi! I love reading your blog!
You touched on some...Hi! I love reading your blog!<br /><br />You touched on some of the points in the Rosin piece that really left a sour taste in my mouth: the classist implications about how nursing is a luxury, and more importantly, the complete derailing from the real issue at stake: the lack of support for all parents, regardless of their feeding choices, to stay HOME with their babies for longer periods of time without threat of losing their employment.<br /><br />Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-83524579040707613972009-04-30T09:44:00.000-07:002009-04-30T09:44:00.000-07:00No, I'm not sure that is what I mean. I think I m...No, I'm not sure that is what I mean. I think I mean that lungs are designed for fresh air - and you give them irritants, they will react. Babies' biology is designed for human milk, and if you give them irritants, they will react...<br /><br />I think.<br /><br />I'm not sure. I know I've rejected the 'formula feeding is like giving cigarettes' totally: it's not. Formula has to be given, if a baby is hungry and there is no human milk to give it. So it's not a good analogy. Neither is it a good analogy as tobacco is so much more damaging, than formula, on so many levels.<br /><br />Unlike the perfect analogy of the advertising and marketing ethics of the two industries. That's not an analogy - that's direct comparison.<br /><br />I've argued before that the tobacco analogy doesn't work - as the baby MUST be fed. You don't have to smoke.<br /><br />But you _do_ have to breathe. You must have fresh air - if it's not clean, it wil damage, and in some people in a cohort, that damage will be life threatening.<br /><br />Likewise, you must feed the baby.<br /><br />In fact, I do think it works now. Many many people work in contanimated air: workers in poorly resourced mines and factories etc. In this country, in the mines and mills in the past.<br /> Not breathing wasn't an option, so you breathed in the polluted air, and lived with its effects.<br /><br />So, whilst you do not have to smoke - you MUST breathe: if all that is avaiable is polluted air...<br /><br />Likewise, you must feed the baby: and the baby will ingest irritants. Irritants that will harm - especially in the first six months, before gut closure. The harm will be serious, for some of the cohort.<br /><br />I think. :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13479061759803882187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-47124852370439922482009-04-30T08:55:00.000-07:002009-04-30T08:55:00.000-07:00"Breathing fresh air doesn't cause cancer: but bre..."Breathing fresh air doesn't cause cancer: but breathing smoke can trigger it." As an analogy, I think you meant that fresh air won't stop you from getting cancer?<br /><br />So many great points.<br /><br />You're so right about the science, but for me it's not the main issue. For me, breastfeeding and other AP practices were crucial to bonding and facilitating natural mothering behavior. Between care provider-induced trauma at the birth and PPD, and as someone who lived in her head and had never had much interest in babies and children, the oxytocin and prolactin from breastfeeding were really not something I could afford not to have helping me. It infuriates me that those of Rosin's ilk would have had me believe that such effects are insignificant. When I think of what I might have lost...Lindahttp://fourlittlebirds.blogsome.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-42885369351454796412009-04-30T06:42:00.000-07:002009-04-30T06:42:00.000-07:00Your my new hero.Your my new hero.Juliehttp://www.naturaltransition.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-5317448609198133682009-04-30T05:20:00.000-07:002009-04-30T05:20:00.000-07:00This was brilliant. You put into words many of th...This was brilliant. You put into words many of the things I was thinking but couldn't voice. I teared up a little reading this. How I wish you could stand next to me when I'm trying to express why I will not use formula. Why would I use something less than perfect? Thank you for writing this post.Kristahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05773752354581656727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-76533697836053819592009-04-30T03:05:00.000-07:002009-04-30T03:05:00.000-07:00Spread far and wide! It's all clean now! ;-)Spread far and wide! It's all clean now! ;-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13479061759803882187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-32541279202009032582009-04-30T02:48:00.000-07:002009-04-30T02:48:00.000-07:00hi there, long term BF-er in Oz here!
thanks, what...hi there, long term BF-er in Oz here!<br />thanks, what a great piece of writing.<br />Mind if i spread it about a bit?!zosehttp://www.rivetkitty.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-15274416510667544192009-04-30T02:25:00.000-07:002009-04-30T02:25:00.000-07:00Great writing Morgan! Like the but~ butt joke too ...Great writing Morgan! Like the but~ butt joke too :)<br />Totally agree with you on the breast is not best it's normal.<br />Keep up your fantastic work!!<br />x x xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-84490916981626218052009-04-29T23:00:00.000-07:002009-04-29T23:00:00.000-07:00I thought I was making comment about the power and...I thought I was making comment about the power and postioning of authority figures in commercial advertising and thus illuminating the power of role models within the market place.<br /><br /><br />Yeah, that's what I thought, but then I realised that might be a sensible position to be taking and you know we lactivists aren't sensible and we're just nasty meanies!Rosemary Cottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12204378986946967049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-47046754097298937442009-04-29T21:40:00.000-07:002009-04-29T21:40:00.000-07:00Excellent! Pretty much the same things I said, onl...Excellent! Pretty much the same things I said, only you said more and said it better haha. Loved all the tobacco ads.<br /> <br />http://jeremyscorner-grifter.blogspot.com/2009/03/response-to-case-against-breast-feeding.htmlEmilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377101567280185610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-75608616004006520412009-04-29T21:18:00.000-07:002009-04-29T21:18:00.000-07:00Great post!
Oh I couldn't even get through Hannah...Great post!<br /><br />Oh I couldn't even get through Hannah Rosin's article. I got through the first page and a half and was seeing red!Lishahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09534252208700971272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-60755500819095913922009-04-29T15:01:00.000-07:002009-04-29T15:01:00.000-07:00Three cheers! Brilliant artical, well though out a...Three cheers! Brilliant artical, well though out and powerfully exptessed. I shall be passing on the link :-)<br /><br />Never, never give up!Nalinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16674173276484824503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-28084740904317415062009-04-29T14:59:00.000-07:002009-04-29T14:59:00.000-07:00Thank you for saying this. We need to say it over...Thank you for saying this. We need to say it over and over and over again.RPWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16686240798146992394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-91244575459661720372009-04-29T14:57:00.000-07:002009-04-29T14:57:00.000-07:00Morgan, you are the mistress of commonsense.. as w...Morgan, you are the mistress of commonsense.. as well as sadly right that people don't seem to realise that the message should be "Breast Is Normal". It just doesn't rhyme well enough for your average PR spinner, I suppose, however well intentioned.<br /><br />It'll probably take a celebrity's child to die *shudder* as a result of poor formula prep - and for that to be the publicly reported cause - before the majority of people start to consider the whole picture.. possibly a bit like Roy Castle and his passive smoke-related lung cancer.<br /><br />Defo seconding the comment that this should be printed in a newspaper :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688291830429158315.post-32822233719291845992009-04-29T14:34:00.000-07:002009-04-29T14:34:00.000-07:00I wish I was half as articulate as yourself! I als...I wish I was half as articulate as yourself! I also wish this was published in the national press as a follow up to "that" article.<br />Fantastic.katienoreply@blogger.com