The Big Letdown
How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding
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Carmen Jewel Jones
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Pediatricians say you should but it's okay if you don't. The hospital says, "Breast is best," but sends you home with formula "just in case." Your sister-in-law says, "Of course you should!" Your mother says, "I didn't, and you turned out just fine." Celebrities are photographed nursing in public, yet breastfeeding mothers are asked to cover up in malls and on airplanes. Breastfeeding is a private act, yet everyone has an opinion about it. How did feeding our babies get so complicated?
Journalist and infant health advocate Kimberly Seals Allers breaks breastfeeding out of the realm of "personal choice" and shows our broader connection to an industrialized food system that begins at birth, the fallout of feminist ideals, and the federal policies that are far from family friendly. The Big Letdown uncovers the multibillion-dollar forces battling to replace mothers' milk and the failure of the medical establishment to protect infant health. Weaving together research and personal stories with original reporting on medicine, big pharma, and hospitals, Kimberly Seals Allers shows how mothers and babies have been abandoned by all the forces that should be supporting families from the start—and what we can do to help.
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- Rhonda F.
- 03-22-25
The Big Letdown is true
Unfortunately, this is all so true in the lives of so many of my clients. This book helps people see what's behind the scenes.
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- JB
- 03-24-25
Whiny and Entitled
I am a CLC and therefore strong advocate for breastfeeding, but this book was a whole lot of self-entitled expectation that government, society, men, etc need to change in order to make women’s breastfeeding experience possible and without any cost to the mother. (i.e. women who breastfeed should be supplemented with social security benefits for the work of nursing their children.) This book felt a whole lot like a self-pity session on all the ways external circumstances stop women from nursing their children rather than acknowledging that having children, let alone nursing them, requires self- sacrifice on many levels. This sacrifice is both okay and totally worth it.
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