The next post is going to be a big one. I wanted to write out a post for the “BU” series that really exemplified what I thought “BU” would be like. I particularly wanted to cover the issue of returning to paid work.
This is an issue close to my heart at the moment as I can’t afford to be a SAHP any more really. But also, I do think modern society is set up in such a way that SAHPs can be quite isolated and going back to paid work is sometimes the only way to defeat isolation. The issue of who cares for your baby if you do return to paid work is a huge one fraught with all kinds of guilt for many mothers. And as for breastfeeding, or breast milk feeding, how does that work out, especially if the infant is exclusively breastfed?
I wanted to just throw an idea or two out there, some of it is shamelessly gleaned from The Continuum Concept I’ll admit, and some of it is my own musings. I’d say much of it is probably hopelessly idealistic but this is breastfeeding utopia after all.
A friend of mine once mused that the real challenge for any society is what to do with its young men. (He did say this after watching Ross Kemp on Gangs so I took it with a pinch of salt! 
) I think that just as much of a challenge for a society is how to treat its new mothers.
