Some time ago I attended a seminar where my favorite speaker was a developmental psychologst. He talked for most of his 45 minutes about the wonders of breastfeeding and mother-child interaction and ended with: oh, and by the way, it feeds the baby as well.
--- On Tue, 3/3/09, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Kristen writes:
Ask any mother: she breastfeeds for the "nutrients" or for the "health
benefits". It's all about the milk.
~~
Not that I know it makes a difference much of the time, but this is the
reason I try to go back to Miriam Labbok's "flower bloom" graphic of all the
important things that happen when a baby breastfeeds: child spacing, gut
maturation, immune system function, the emotional/physical underpinnings of all
healthy interrerelationships,learning/brain function, homeostatic support,
neurophysiologic maturation ( in layman's terms, not these! :), etc., oh and
transfer of calories, too. I end with the nutrient transfer, that is what formula
does, and nothing more...
We can only commit to continuing to share all this with families.
Peace,
Judy
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