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I know it's not about getting a gold medal or anything....
Sue wrote:
"cjra" wrote in message oups.com... so why does it bug me so much when people disparage, or at least dismiss my efforts? I would like to know why women who breastfeed need to feel like they are doing the most heroic thing on earth? Why do you need your efforts acknowledged? All you are doing is feeding a baby. It has to be fed one way or the other. Maybe I have this wrong, but I don't think cjra was objecting to people not acknowledging her efforts or not telling her she's doing the most heroic thing on earth. I thought her problem was with people assuming that she didn't have any problems with it when, in fact, she did, and it took a lot of perseverance and determination for her to get breastfeeding working. I can understand that. When you've put a lot of effort into overcoming difficulties in order to do something, it *is* annoying to have someone assume that you had an easy time doing it without making the slightest effort to find out what really went on. Doesn't matter whether the activity in question is breastfeeding, hillwalking or learning Japanese. If someone doesn't want to hear the details of what kind of problems somebody else had or didn't have when they were trying to do X, then, fair enough, they don't have to - but in that case they shouldn't just assume that no such problems existed. All the best, Sarah -- http://www.goodenoughmummy.typepad.com "That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be" - P. C. Hodgell |
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I know it's not about getting a gold medal or anything....
On Jan 25, 5:36 pm, Sarah Vaughan wrote: Sue wrote: "cjra" wrote in message roups.com... so why does it bug me so much when people disparage, or at least dismiss my efforts? I would like to know why women who breastfeed need to feel like they are doing the most heroic thing on earth? Why do you need your efforts acknowledged? All you are doing is feeding a baby. It has to be fed one way or the other. Maybe I have this wrong, but I don't think cjra was objecting to people not acknowledging her efforts or not telling her she's doing the most heroic thing on earth. I thought her problem was with people assuming that she didn't have any problems with it when, in fact, she did, and it took a lot of perseverance and determination for her to get breastfeeding working. You have it right. |
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