Dear Friends:
This is a painful and important topic to discuss.
My personal belief is that relationships are suffering as a result of
toxic capitalism (where profit is more important than health and truth), and as
Dr. Michel Odent calls it, an impaired ability to love. Love has no value as
a result of the Industrial Revolution, which has blown families and villages
apart as adults had to leave to go work in the factories and cities where
the money was. As a result of factory mentality, birth and death moved to
hospitals. This move was never for the good of the babies; it was for the training
of physicians, although the public was encouraged to believe that it was
'better' to birth in a hospital. Even today, where women have a 1 in 3 chance of
being cut, hospitals are still considered "better" somehow.
How can a baby induced out of its womb, before it is ready, to a mother
similarly unready learn to love?
We are living in sympathetic mode, either fearful or angry, neither of
which is conducive to loving. This is a cultural phenomena, fast becoming a
global one.
Fortunately, we Lactnetters represent the parasympathetic mode, the
oxytocin-driven model and can support each other in these tough times.
How can a mother get close when she has to leave her baby at 6 weeks?
T. Berry Brazelton identified 30 years ago that women would choose not to be
too close with their babies because it hurt too much to leave them.
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, RLC, CCE
craniosacral therapy practitioner
Faculty, Lactation Division Maternal-Infant Program, Union Institute
Film Reviews Editor, JHL
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
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