>From: "Rachel Myr" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Susan Stockwell" <[log in to unmask]> >CC: "Rachel" <[log in to unmask]>, "Melissa Vickers" <[log in to unmask]>, > "Kathy Koch" <[log in to unmask]>, "Kathleen B. Bruce" ><[log in to unmask]>, "Karen Zeretzke" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: Mental Health and Lactation >Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 19:53:28 +0100 > >Hello Susan, >I imagine this was a post to Lactnet, not just to the listmothers, so just >send it again, to [log in to unmask] and the whole list will get >it! >cheers >Rachel Myr >listmother > >-----Original Message----- >From: Susan Stockwell [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: 4. desember 2001 17:26 >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Mental Health and Lactation > > >Some years ago in the UK a charity ran a campaign with the slogan >Schizophrenia, a National Emergency. In my previous work in family law I >was >constantly in contact with very anxious, stressed, often violent people >whom >as a lay person (not medical) I would say were in poor mental health. Some >time ago the UK press reported some US research (somewhere beginning with P >sorry) on poorer mental health in later life resulting from permanent brain >damage in infancy due to the excessive release of a stress hormone. It was >suggested as a result that babies be comforted at night or sleep with >parents to avoid this. >The formula industry has done such an excellent PR job over the best part >of >a century in convincing western society that a baby's normal sleep patern >is >all night that persuading a mother to breastfeed at night is a real uphill >struggle. Could not the endemic depression, stress,anxiety stress related >illness such as allergies,asthma and exczma be attributed to the treatment >of infants. I understand that breastfeeding cultures are horrified by our >practise of leaving infants all alone at night. >Any body got any thoughts/research out there on this alternative approach >to >getting nightfeeds back as the normal expectation of motherhood? > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html