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| I also happen to think if one tries hard enough, it works. I had so many troubles, it was so not easy, etc etc, most people I know didn't have it easy, but only those who toughed it out were successful. I only know one mom who whom it was a breeze. | |
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I don't even know one, not one mother who breezed into it and never had any issues at all. Everyone I know had troubles of one sort or another: latching on, pain, infection, fatigue, pumping not working when returning to work or finding the baby won't take a bottle, etc.
Hmm... best not put me in charge of the revamped publicity campaign... But really, although me and everyone else I know had difficult days, 95% of it went just great.
Picking up on the earlier point about a 'fail message'... If a person attempts to do something, and doesn't manage to do it, well in what way can that be called a success? Of course, there's no need to go out of one's way to be deliberately hurtful of people's feelings, but I don't agree with distorting or hiding facts in order to make people feel better, in breastfeeding or any other arena. This is a particular bugbear of mine in the UK school system, this 'all must have prizes' mentality where no-one is allowed to feel bad, except oddly enough the truly successful kids who wonder why no-one's making a big fuss that they came first in the race or got 10/10 in their spellings for the whole year.
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Gosh, thanks.
