In a message dated 9/5/2007 12:53:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[log in to unmask] writes:

call me overly squeamish - but I don't need other people's germs.I
have enough of my own!

Dear Friends:
 
If you walk out in the world, you are getting other people's germs. If you 
live anywhere, you are living in a sea of germs. The only way to avoid germs is 
to live in a bubble, as some with rare immune diseases or totally 
immunosupressed (people that are burned, or awaiting bone marrow transplants).
 
Such attitudes about 'sterility' were used to endorse formula feeding in the 
early 1900s, as breastfeeding was thought to be a source of contamination by 
germs. Imagine: baby is contact  with mother's skin and all those germs. 
Mothers and babies breathing each other's air. Baby is sucking on a nipple that 
can't be boiled to sterilize. Horrors! (tongue drilling hole in cheek here.)
 
warmly,

 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
_http://www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com/_ 
(http://www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com/) 
www.myspace/AdonicaLee



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