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"Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 23 Feb 2002 09:13:26 EST
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Susan you wrote, "In no way would I wish to suggest we
should naively assume human milk is always perfect in
an imperfect world.  On the other hand it is not milk
or breastfeeding that fails or needs replacing. More
often it is the changes in that imperfect world
undermining milk and breastfeeding that should be
rectified."

Your post is excellent in my estimation.  The only question I have to you and
other lactnetters is this:

If the drug and infant formula industries consider human milk to be
perfection, why can't we?  Read the 100's of patents on human milk and one
starts to believe that human milk/mother's milk is as close to perfection as
we can get in life.  Nature creates its own perfection not man.  We look at
snowflakes (haven't seen one in years, though) and are awed by the beauty of
each flake and no two alike.  You go to the ocean and look at the waves, all
different, never the same.  Breastmilk like snowflakes and waves, always
changing, never the same...a beauty that man can not duplicate without a cost
to our lives.  The dynamic of breastfeeding is that we become part of the
river of life, ever changing but constant.  There is a wonder to it all.  It
is poetical in that it has everything to offer us, as mothers and to the next
generation.  It brings all the elements of humanity into one sweet
response--health (physical and emotional), nutrition, love.  This is nature's
perfection and disregarding the importance of this maternal act of nurture is
a rejection of life and an act of dependence on the corporate world of man.
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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