Dear Lactnet Friends: My friend send me this snippet from a parenting list: "My baby uses a sound machine to sleep and last night it stopped working. Ack! Does anyone happen to have one they are willing to sell or let me borrow........... I'm hoping to get my hands on one before my baby's naptime today." What will these children grow up to need? What will they be like? How will they have friends, mate, and have long marriages? There are more and more substitutes for relationship here in the USA: machines to extract milk, machines to help children sleep, machines to monitor children sleeping alone in bedrooms....machines to be manufactured, packaged, marketed and sold; machines to be used, and machines to be discarded in landfills when they break, wear out, or outgrown. This is progress?? The trend towards bottle-feeding pumped milk is considered by some to be "equivalent " to breastfeeding, at least here in the USA. A mother was late to my infant massage class last week because she had to pump milk to have some available if her baby got hungry in class. I watch mothers bottle-feed in my massage class; it is so much work because babies need more than food. I wonder if bottle-feeding pumped milk makes parenting more difficult as the babe in arms can smell milk in the breast, but can't have it. Will there be a Parent-net list in another few decades, where ancient arts of parenting (breastfeeding, holding, cuddling, interacting to soothe) will be discussed? sigh. warmly, and fast approaching dinosaur-hood Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI, ANLC craniosacral therapy practitioner www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html To reach list owners: [log in to unmask] Mail all list management commands to: [log in to unmask] COMMANDS: 1. To temporarily stop your subscription write in the body of an email: set lactnet nomail 2. To start it again: set lactnet mail 3. To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet 4. To get a comprehensive list of rules and directions: get lactnet welcome