This film follows several families through breastfeeding trial and error. It's not very well done and I don't think Dana Ben-Ari spent a lot of time looking for people for her film who were vested in the cause of breastfeeding and normalizing it. A few of the fathers/partners in the film were so non supportive and discouraging of their ladies to nurse their young and miss out on that very important source of vital nutrition was disheartening. I was disappointed in this film a lot because I felt like this was a subject that needed to be covered, but it was done poorly. Some of the interviews with experts in the film are top notch and I give the movie a thumbs up for that but the movie lacked a great deal with doing much in the way of normalizing breastfeeding. Way to go by showing unsupportive fathers and moms who just gave up with no real support to encourage them to stick it out. Sorry. This movie kind of sucks! I'm disappointed Ricki Lake got behind this and put her name on it. It makes me lose a little respect for her.
Review of Breastmilk
