What better times to look upon the health of the most important members of
the world we live in! The rights of mother and child are inseparable from
their evolutionary biology.





At least 180 million years of mammalian evolution, and as much as 300
million years if you include the proto-mammalian development of skin glands
providing primitive lysozyme and lactoferrin for immunological protection,
has produced species- specific milks through limitless natural selection
resulting in evolutionary survival and the promotion of normal development.
Imprinting and innate – behaviours provide necessary evolutionary survival
elements.





The behavioural process of imprinting takes place during a sensitive period
in the early hours of life during which the baby’s evolutionary biology
enables it to orally fixate to a stimulus feature, normally the mother’s
nipple and surrounding milking area, and encode the tactile
characteristics. The tactile nature of one teat preference has been
observed across the mammalian- spectrum as a survival strategy. In the wake
of maternal nipple deprivation where displacement takes place, so linking
all mammal babies, it will be to one digit or digit pair that will be
sucked out of ten to the exclusion of all others or one exclusive dummy
brand or decoy. Should a baby loose its fixated decoy it will find
difficulty in being comforted by the mother.



Latchment (a term incepted by E J (Gale)Mobbs) defines the first stage of
emotional development during which the baby recognises its mother through
the oral tactile recognition of the stimulus feature in the mouth for
evolutionary survival (“mother in the mouth”). Latch and latching are the
terms used for physical positioning within the milking area.


Attachment, the term given by John Bowlby, defines the second stage of
emotional development commencing sometime after six months of life when the
baby visually recognises its mother as a whole person. (“mother in the
eye”). During this biologically instinctive attachment phase, the baby will
seek close proximity to its mother for evolutionary survival. Latchment
behaviour is maintained during the attachment phase and the fading of this
evolutionary behaviour commonly around the end of toddlerhood will
eventually match the biological timing of weaning.



It is perplexing when peer- reviewed articles in Breastfeeding journals
describe the evolutionary normal process of breastfeeding as “best and
safest” for mother and baby when in fact what is being looked at is
disordered physiology, the result of formula feeding negating the normal
biophysiological protection imparted to mother and baby through
breastfeeding and rendered by evolutionary natural selection. This unique
evolutionary protection, which cannot ever be matched artificially, is not
only through nutrition, immunology and infection defence, but also through
oxytocin, maternal responsiveness and relationship benefits provide safer
mothering, reduced maternal stress and continuing evolutionary survival.
Breastfeeding is a mammalian evolutionary norm facilitated in humans and
great apes through the essential nature of role modelling within the home
and from community learning by simply copying breastfeeding mothers. Why
are we failing to pass on to mothers the knowledge and understanding of why
formula is such an unhealthy choice? Choosing to formula - feed and by
giving even one bottle exposes the immune biology of our precious children
to significant risk and can no longer be seen as a safe or logical option.



The large-scale formula manufacturers have an inherent commercial interest
in the selection of formula as the control-group in scientific
presentations as this obscures the risks of their product. Good science
should not accept this. Do we need to ask ourselves whether our journal
editors are respecting the basic tenets of epidemiology where studies are
put in place to find factors which do harm?



More information at https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.13034

Helpful advocacy - Diane Wiessinger ref from WABA e-newsletter April 2012
page 7



Breastfeeding advocacy for health professionals and mothers.
http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.16956.18569

Health professional knowledge of breastfeeding: Are the health risks of
infant formula feeding accurately conveyed by the titles and abstracts of
journal articles. Julie Smith et al.



http://doi.org/10.1177/0890334409331506




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Best wishes


Dr George Anthony Mobbs
MBBS FRCOG FRANZCOG IBCLC
Breastfeeding Medicine
Sydney Australia
www.elsiemobbs.com.au
insta @breastfeedingevolution
<https://www.instagram.com/breastfeedingevolution/>

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