Greetings,

>> Has anyone researched human artificial feeding for several generations
> in any culture?  The dentist, Dr. Palmer has shown that by not
> breastfeeding the development of the palate is not optimal and sets
> humans up for lifelong breathing and respiratory difficulties, such as
> sleep apnea in adulthood, etc.  I would like to know if any society
> completely rejected giving newborns breastmilk and yet survived several
> generations on completely alien-to-infant nutrition, beginning with
> pre-formula times.
babies weren't breasfed at all in Iceland in XVIII-XIX , according to
Michel Odent  (Scientification of Love, p113, he allso provides the
reference: Harstrup, Kirsten 'a question of reason: breastfeeding patterns
in 17th- and 18th-century Iceland'. in Maher, Vanessa ed. The antropology of
breasfeeding. Berg, Oxford,1992: 91-108). Among the different breastmilk
substitutes
was even chewed fish. I wonder why they started to reject breastmilk?
Mortality rate was very high: 300-400 per 1000.

Sincerely yours,
Victoria, mom to Maria, Julia, Sophia

Kiev, Ukraine

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