Ama Traditional Support Services created this blog to serve as a resource for families around pregnancy and birth through education, awareness, news, and tried-and-true traditional healing methods. The goal is to empower families to take their pregnancy and postpartum health back into their hands; thereby, reducing our poor birth outcomes, especially with regard to people of color
On the face of it, this makes me very sad, that a bunch of high profile women would trounce an initiative to encourage breastfeeding. Okay, Whoopie, so you chose to bottle feed. Whooptie Do, Good for You. But saying that "Mike needs to back off" because women are already "under too much pressure" to nurse their neonates is simply rediculous. Or should I say "simple" and "rediculous". That the city of New York, which has many health initiatives on the books, has ventured into concideration of breasfeeding as a health initiative is a GOOD thing. I am ashamed of the tone of the conversation. But then, I am often ashamed of the tone of The View. It is in general, a demeaning program, in my view, so I guess I shouldn't be surprized at this conversation... but somehow I am. I am NOT anonymous on this, this is MamaDawn. I just don't know how to use the "comment as" without inserting a URL...
I too thought this was a reckless and ignorant statement made by Whoopie. Her statement that society is putting too much pressure on women is correct BUT that doesn't mean breastfeeding should be discouraged, but rather the polar opposite! American women should be given the right and societal support to nurture and build healthy relationships with their babies like most other countries do. Breastfeeding requires a lot of physical and emotional support for every woman.
On the face of it, this makes me very sad, that a bunch of high profile women would trounce an initiative to encourage breastfeeding. Okay, Whoopie, so you chose to bottle feed. Whooptie Do, Good for You. But saying that "Mike needs to back off" because women are already "under too much pressure" to nurse their neonates is simply rediculous. Or should I say "simple" and "rediculous". That the city of New York, which has many health initiatives on the books, has ventured into concideration of breasfeeding as a health initiative is a GOOD thing. I am ashamed of the tone of the conversation. But then, I am often ashamed of the tone of The View. It is in general, a demeaning program, in my view, so I guess I shouldn't be surprized at this conversation... but somehow I am. I am NOT anonymous on this, this is MamaDawn. I just don't know how to use the "comment as" without inserting a URL...
ReplyDeleteI too thought this was a reckless and ignorant statement made by Whoopie. Her statement that society is putting too much pressure on women is correct BUT that doesn't mean breastfeeding should be discouraged, but rather the polar opposite! American women should be given the right and societal support to nurture and build healthy relationships with their babies like most other countries do. Breastfeeding requires a lot of physical and emotional support for every woman.
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