At 08:13 AM 12/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>What is their
>evidence that the milk somehow magically turns to white water after
>12 months? It sounds like giving the 3 yo breast milk would be a
>wonderufl idea.
>
>Does anyone have any idea how this particular bit of nonsense ever
>got started?
and yet, in the case of heather and hagan, posted about recently, heather
is getting the exact *reverse* advice/concern from the nutritionist - that
"newborn" milk is insufficient, nutritionally, for her 2 year old with
special needs! I think both of these situations and the many more like
them are just one more way that breastfeeding is blamed for any ill.
Perhaps it is because, we, as a society, have an innate distrust of our
bodies and, in general, of our capabities (beyond the medical realm as
well), and are wowed and awed by technological innovations, but not nearly
as much so by natural wonders and capabilities. Perhaps, because of this
pervasive attitude, we can't possibly believe that the substance that is
naturally produced by our bodies to feed our babies can measure up to what
we can produce in a laboratory.
Since there is a mountain of evidence to the contrary with "normal"
breastfeeding situations, we focus on the unusual or special situations and
use those to target the natural wonder of human milk, since there is not so
much clear cut data for those more unique issues. Just pondering, but I do
think distrust and a need for cold, hard figures is endemic in our
culture. The "we" in this post obviously doesn't refer to we here on
lactnet, but the more general, societal "we."
Lyla Wolfenstein, B.S., IBCLC, RLC
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