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In a message dated 11/18/2005 4:09:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Breastmilk has to get very polluted before formula looks safer. The
insidious underlying message when there is talk about "something" in mothers' milk is
"The MOTHER is a risk to her own baby." That, my friends, is a dangerous,
patronizing concept at best.
Dear Friends:
Yes!!
This message, that the MOTHER is a risk to her own baby, is also implied
in the notion that bedsharing is dangerous.
Coach Smith nails this.
Gotta watch out for these mothers.............. it is far better to put
our sweet babies alone on their backs in their cribs to sleep with a chunk of
plastic in their mouths. IT is also better and safer to feed them chemically
altered bovine milk. If we leave it to mothers, lord knows what will happen.
(Tongue drilling hole in cheek here).
Our notion that mothers should listen to Science was born in the early
1900s, where the notion developed that babies would be spoiled by mothers who
would cuddle and kiss them and fill them full of germs. We haven't come very
far, have we? (Another reason to read Chapter 1 of Deborah Blum's terrific
book, Love at Goon Park, is that she gives a marvelous historical overview of
that era.)
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
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