Hi everyone,
My name is Claudia and I live in Mexico, and ....talking about atole I seem to 
remember all the women I´ve seen  and what they want  is their mother. It´s 
a tradition throughout the years  when a women has their baby , at least for 
the first time, moms ( grandmothers)visits the daugher and even stay with her 
to help her with the new born. Atole it´s part of a mexican menu  and it 
became part of our mexican tradition and it seemed to be a part of the new 
moms diet for that reason. Somehow mexican women have assosiated their 
moms nurturing them with atoles and at it seems to be like a "support tool " 
for new mom from their moms. The problem is when babies  get colicky and 
many latin women with good nutrition have a  hard time metabolizing lactose 
products (remembeber reading about a metabolizing enyme that is missing 
among latime wemen). Many wemen here still think that they have to "drink 
milk in order to make milk " then  the atole intake which has lots of milk! I 
agree that low income moms that can not afford a good nutrition  atole will 
make them "make more milk", but with normal to hi income moms this just 
makes their babies be more crancky. It´s my point of view from what I´ve 
seen. My conclusion is that if they make them feel  loved its works, but lets 
look to the babies reaction too.

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