Hi All, I know this is delayed, after a hiatus I forgot about the three/day
posting and got rejected on this one! :)
Winnie wrote:
There have been some, more in the past perhaps (hopefully) who have taken
the stand that women should bear as many children as possible and anything
that
was seen to lengthen the intervals between children was therefore "not
according to God's wishes"! Of course, I think most today would reject
this
interpretation.
When I was doing LLL meeting in a predominantly Orthodox Jewish
neighborhood, years ago, the woman who was my hostess for two years used to work to
counter this idea within her own community. She was a faithful woman who
had about eight children, and she learned successively over time about
breastfeeding
exclusively and into toddlerhood - after the second or third one I
believe.
She was always helpful in pointing out that she had been fruitful and had
many
children but she had them over 20 years, not 9, which is so much healthier,
she thought. We both went from the angle that since formula feeding is a
substitute (for mother's own Divinely provided nurturing gifts,) that women
who
did not breastfeed were in fact actually artificially affecting their
fertility as surely as someone on birth control pills would be, just in the
opposite
direction ( too many children, too closely born). This was accepted as
logic
by some and ignored by others, since formula is considered so "normal" but
I
still think the logic makes perfect sense.
Just my thoughts,
Judy
Judy LeVan Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL, Brooklyn, USAL
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