>YEA Nancy... its about time...
>
>Date:    Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:38:32 -0600
>From:    Nancy Mohrbacher <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: normalizing, mohrbacher, and the surgeon general
>
> >
> > For another lovely example of this, see the first inside page of LLLI's new
> > pamphlet, "When you breastfeed your baby: getting started."  Our own Nancy
> > Mohrbacher makes the point very gracefully and clearly.
> >In case you're curious, here is the opening paragraph of LLLI's new 
> (2003) "When You Breastfeed
>Your Baby: Getting Started."
>
>"We have always known that breastfeeding brings the comfort and delight of 
>a unique closeness
>between mother and baby.  But it has only been in recent years that we’ve 
>begun to understand how
>important breastfeeding is to the normal health of a mother and her 
>newborn.   Around 1900, for
>the first time in human history, human milk substitutes were developed 
>that could reliably keep
>babies alive.  Although these artificial baby milks began to be widely 
>used in the 1920s, it
>wasn’t until the 1970s that research began to reveal their short- and 
>long-term health effects on
>mothers and their babies.   After a generation of artificial feeding, we 
>now understand that
>constipation, allergy, and a marked increase in ear infections, digestive 
>problems, and many
>other types of illnesses—both during infancy and later in life—are side 
>effects of these human
>milk substitutes rather than the norm.  Side effects to mothers include a 
>higher risk of
>osteoporosis, anemia, cancer of the ovaries, breast, and uterus, and more. "
>
>I am looking forward to doing the same with as many of LLLI's pamphlets as 
>I'm asked to write and
>rewrite.  It's time for a change!
>
>Nancy  Mohrbacher, IBCLC
>Chicago suburbs, Illinois USA

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