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Nov 16Edited

Did you hear that the founder of the La Leche League resigned her position? She could no longer stay in the organization, THAT SHE FOUNDED, due to its insistence on humoring mentally deranged men who desire the experience of "chest feeding."

https://catholicvote.org/breastfeeding-support-group-founder-resigns-from-board-over-inclusion-of-males-indulging-the-fantasies-of-adults-is-destroying-our-organization/

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Hadn't heard that! I was a member back in 1972 when my daughter was born. Their help was amazing particularly in the face of hospital nurses who thought nursing was inconvenient for hospital personnel.

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Janet's avatar

Mary Ann, 1972 was my year too. I had a friend who encouraged me and gave me their book. Can you believe we have daughters in their 50’s!!! My doctor gave me a booklet too. He was all for it. Lovely time for me and baby. My kid was an Adele Davis girl too.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Janet, My baby daughter now has two children above the age of 18, so no, I can't believe it! My doctor was playing golf the Sunday my daughter was born and the head nurse in O.B. disapproved of nursing, so when I was sprung after 8 days (it was Caesarian), a friend told me about La Leche and I quickly got involved. And my baby was an Adele Davis baby too! In fact, both kids were. [My son was born in an army hospital, delivered by a flight surgeon, and also had anti-breast feeding nurses!] You have to be one tough cookie to resist the medical establishment when they're all arrayed against you.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Boggles the mind that medical professionals would advocate against the means all mammals use to feed newborns. How, oh how did humans survive for so long with only breast milk - sometimes interspecies depending on situation but for the most part human - to feed their young? More Rockefeller medicine, a fast-paced, quiet and subtle intrusion into and subversion of eons of human existence, seen now in the light as an attempt to cull the population of deplorables. Pure unadulterated greed across the board.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Apparently breast feeding interferes with hospital routines and schedules. It's another sign that the medical establishment is not about patients, it's about the medical system and what works best for it.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Yep, with greed at its root. How dare anyone think for themself and ask questions?

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SM's avatar

When I saw “chest feeder” becoming an insultingly common term used by agencies such as the MORONIC CDC, I threw up in my mouth a little.

It made me want to give those people the most fantastic slap in their smug faces!

“MeN cAn ChEsTfEeD” is something only the most arrogant and foolish people believe in. The twats running the CDC should start getting their resumes updated 😂

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NAB's avatar

Twat is such a great word!

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R1ghtTh1nk's avatar

I stopped donating when that happened. I also found their help amazing (in the 1980s).

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Vince's avatar

I saw that report.

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Juju's avatar

🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ I just can’t imagine

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Kathy's avatar

That chest feeding is the most disgusting thing. They have to take so many toxic drugs to force their body to produce something that they call milk. It’s more like toxic soup. Heaven help any poor baby who ingests that poison. The photographs of people doing it are appalling. If you haven’t seen it, don’t look! It will scar your brain.

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RunningLogic's avatar

My midwife friend (who was my doula for my firstborn) posted that 😕😞

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JacquelineP's avatar

So sad... I read the article a few days ago and shared it with some past LLL leaders. One of the things I discovered during the C-19 nonsense was the disproportionate # of "awake" women in my area who were past LLL leaders. I think it was the trust in nature and scepticism of the health care system. I found my way to my first LLL meeting in 1987 after my first son was born. I continued attending (2 more sons) and then became a leader in the early 90s.

I know midwives have been struggling with even more "directives". Here in Canada they are a regulated health profession and have to follow the rules, like offering Vs to pregnant women and newborns.

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