On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at 02:09 PM, Valerie W, McClain wrote:
> katherine in atl, you wrote, "have also seen situations in which mom
> can only
> eat a couple 'rare' foods - like tapioca and ostrich. and really
> nothing else. these
> extreme situations really do say volumes about the gut health/gut
> integrity of the mother."
> Valerie wrote: I think the situation has nothing to do with the
> mother's milk or
> her gut health and everything to do with the amount of gut damage done
> by
> feeding infants inappropriate substances.
Valerie, then explain my first son. Born at home, never left my side,
not even a bottle in the house, never one bit of formula, fortifier,
cow's milk, nothing nothing nothing but breastmilk until he was 9
months old----and yet, he was allergic to everything, so it seemed. We
finally narrowed it down to eliminating from my diet until I was vegan
for the first 18 months of nursing.
And another note: I finally figured out that I could eat whatever I
could eat while I was pregnant with him. Once, while pregnant with
him, I had a hamburger. Almost as soon as it hit my stomach, I
projectile vomited. Same thing happened with some chicken, and then
some salmon, until finally I got it that the baby just didn't want to
eat meat. He still doesn't. He also doesn't eat tomatoes....though
cooked tomato is fine. He's 4.5 years old now.
I think it's too simple to say that formula is the root of all evil,
even if it is. FWIW, I was breastfed until I was 1 and never had a
drop of formula either. Though Big Red was evidently the drink of
choice for my mom's occasional foray into giving me other drinks.
(yikes!!!)
Katie Bredbeck
mother and lactivist
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