> Spend some time observing the children who were breastfed for several
years,
> but who now must drag themselves around or crawl or duck-walk using hands
> and feet due to polio (no wheelchairs are available in these places
> either).
>   Talk to the women about the exclusively breastfed babies they lost to
> neonatal tetanus.  They can give you a really good description of the
> spasms, jaw-clenching, and back-arches that precede death.  Get a grieving
> mother to describe in detail for you what it is like to watch a
> fully-breastfed child slowly suffocating from diphtheria, and finally
> finding peace in death.  And note that it there are NO families that have
> not lost at least one breastfed child during a measles epidemic.
>

And the reality is that the same dramatic stories can be told of brain
damage, vegetative state and death as a reaction to the vaccine to "prevent"
the same diseases.  And it also plays into the picture the conditions under
which the children were born and cared for, in terms of cleanliness and
nutrition to name two.

There is something else that troubles me on this topic.  The marked rise in
the development of vaccines and their common use in the US was also during
the time period that ABM took rise to being "superior" to breastmilk.  Are
the vaccines designed, and were they tested, for what would be a typical
response on an infant that does not already have a strengthened immune
system
from being exclusively breastfed?  So are exclusively breastfed infants that
are immunized being bombarded with more serum that is appropriate for their
healthy immune systems?  It just seems an interesting correlation of the age
of development of ABM and vaccines, and something that truly warrants more
study for the safety, and very life, of our infants and future generation.

Cheryl Taylor White
www.drjaygordon.com

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