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Dear Colleagues:
The Harlow studies are worth review, especially in the light of current
mothering practices where babies have flat heads from being in
carriers/buckets/car seats too long, not carried, plugged with pacifiers,
and too often not exclusively breastfed nor breastfed long enough.
The baby rhesus monkeys preferred the cloth mothers to the wire mothers,
even though the wire mothers provided the milk. As the new (early 1900s)
psychology believed that babies didn't love their mothers, but learned to
love them because their mothers fed them, Harlow's work was significant in
disproving this notion.
When those baby rhesus monkeys grew up, they were socially inadequate. Many
didn't mate. And those that did were terrible mothers.
A bit similar to some trends we see today, no?
warmly, and sadly.....
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
www.myspace.com/adonicalee
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