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Islington Tribune - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 28 August 2009
 
Feeding frenzy

• AS one who spent his first 10 weeks on Earth in an incubator in 1944 (no touchy-feely arrangements in those stern times), I fully agree with all the points you make about the desirability of breast-feeding, especially the intense bonding which allows the baby a period of transition between life in the womb and the outside (Women must fight for breastfeeding, August 21).
For myself, and I suspect for a significant number of people, this important “bonding” is acquired slowly and with many complications (my own way came via poetry) or, in some cases, not at all.
One wonders whether the Earth’s “bonding” cycles of renewal, transition, new life and the completion of the circle is at the centre of any environmental-political movement which wants to heal our damaged planet.
I like the response quoted in Katie Dawson’s article when asked if she was breastfeeding her child because she was a Green: “It’s because I’m a mammal!”
She could, on reflection, perhaps have said: “It’s because I’m a mamma!”
TIM BLEACH
Duncombe Road, N19


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