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This came into my mail box today:
"I thought some of you might be interested in this. In the current issue
of
the magazine Real Simple there is an article, "20 Time Wasting Rules to
Break Now". Most of the rules were things like: matching your handbag to
your shoes. One of the rules is BREASTFEEDING !!??
Here's what the article had to say:
what's the worst thing that could happen if you don't breast-feed your
child?
most likely: "In the long run, nothing," says Boris Petrikovsky,
chairman of the department of obstetrics-gynecology at Nassau University
Medical Center, in East Meadow, New York. When you're bottle-feeding,
you know exactly how much food the baby is eating, and Mom may be less
tired because Dad has no excuse to sleep through 3 a.m. feedings. "There
is also absolutely no conclusive data on breast milk's effects on brain
development," adds Petrikovsky.
worst case: "The biggest downside of not breast-feeding is that the
mother misses out on some of the bonding," says Petrikovsky. And since
breast milk is specially designed to meet the nutritional needs of
infants and contains antibodies that help protect them from a variety of
illnesses, "babies who are breast-fed are more likely to have a stronger
immune system and be sick less than formula-fed infants."
link for letter to the editor
http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/web/letter.html
Ever think thee is someone out there that has been hired to make our jobs
just a wee bit harder than it actually is.
Patricia Blomme
Calgary, Alberta
looking forward to nursing twins off of one functional breat...cause I
CAN!!!
ps. I was told a quote that back in the days of wet nursing that there was
a law that stated that no wet nurse could nurse more than 8 babies/children
at a time. I love it.....nursing two with one...PHFTTTTTT...peice o' cake!
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