Sounds pretty good Gonneke. However, whatever replaces breastmilk (and it's
often formula) actively does damage....denial of breastmilk is just part of
it, harm from whatever the child is being: fed formula, solids (especially I
think the HIV transmission evidence suggests) and probably also teas (no
research on this) do do harm.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

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From: "gonneke van veldhuizen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: how do people not know?


> --- On Sat, 8/9/08, Karleen Gribble <[log in to unmask]> wrote:A
> question here...how may of you never say that breast is best or that there
> are benefits to breastfeeding? How many of you always communicate the
> risks
> of using formula to mothers and others when talking about infant feeding?
> What would you say if someone asked you why using infant formula increased
> the risk of infection?
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> I've trained myself to not mention anything in the range of ''best'' or
> benefits, but to start with breastfeeding as the infant feeding and care
> norm and to refer to risks or consequences of 'not breastfeeding''. I do
> not say that formula or bottle feeding are bad either. Because it is the
> *not breastfeeding* that does the harm.
>
> Warmly,
>
> Gonneke, IBCLC, LLLL waiting in southern netherlands for her children to
> return from a camping vacation in Sweden and Luxembourg.
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