Dear Friends:
        Interesting posts from Magda and Heather and others about the
balancing act between supporting the mother who spends any time with her baby
at breast versus the knowledge that the only best place for an infant to be
nurtured (fed spiritually and physically) is at the breast.
        Seems like a reflection of the conflict between the brain and the
heart. The brain has to always be figuring it out, based on internal and
external environment factors (i.e. knowledge and culture). If one is led by
the heart, there isn't a conflict. The heart is clear, but fragile and
usually looses to the louder brain.
        After birth, hearts join: mother's to baby's, as close as possible to
what was inside.  Culture or civilization or society today values brain, so
heart looses. Hence the conflict.
        Warmly, Nikki Lee

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