> Lisa said: 
> 
> "I don't believe this is normal in nature. You do not see this kind of
> failure in the animal kingdom. But we don't really live "in nature"
> anymore."
> 
> I'm afraid I'm a little more harsh in my view of the "nature" and "the
> environment" - I believe most if not all these errors occurred in nature
> all along - even without contaminants - but the babies died (of
> tongue-tie, of ineffective suck, etc.), the mothers (with PCOS or other
> problems we now overcome with our medical interventions ) died of
> diabetes, etc. long before they had babies and those with ineffective
> breasts also lost their babies - unless they found and could "pay" for a
> wet-nurse.  (I put "pay" in quotes, because it may be that the wet-nurse
> was a friend, or it may be that the wet-nurse would get payment in cash,
> food, housing, whatever - OR she could be a slave.a whole other topic as
> this occurred long before the slavery times in the US!)
> 
> We are now dealing with infants that normally would have died and mothers
> that normally would have never been pregnant.  
> 
> Yes, there are many times that I see moms that just a little positioning,
> a little angling here, a change of "schedule" there solves the problem .
> but I'm also coming increasingly across cases that require many more
> interventions, supplementation, follow-up and sleepless nights (for ME
> worried about whether I missed something and what else I could have
> done!).  
> 
> Jeanette Panchula, BSW, RN, PHN, IBCLC
> Vacaville, California
> 
> PS - I've lost my position in the California Maternal, Child and
> Adolescent Health office as California WIC can no longer fund it, and MCAH
> cannot fund it, either - I DO have a job, thanks to the great support in
> my county (and my PHN seniority) - but it is as a "Fetal-Infant Mortality
> Review" Public Health Nurse.  So now on the "prowl" for grant money to get
> BACK into breastfeeding (starting a clinic/give trainings/etc.).  Any
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> 
> 

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