Dear Friends:
    I see two threads in this cloth.
    Firstly, I remember some postulate, some theorem that  says if a species 
has a deficiency in greater than 3% of its reproductive  process, that species 
doesn't survive.
    However, today is different. We are seeing women now  that are using 
every aide and injection possible or imagined to conceive. That  is new. Cancer 
survivors are now making babies and breastfeeding. Survivors of  intensive care 
nurseries are growing up to make babies.  We are seeing  babies of mothers 
with chronic disease, including this latest mother in the  news, in a coma from 
spreading cancer. Babies to mothers over 50 or  post-menopausal are asking to 
breastfeed.
    It makes sense to think that the old rules might  not apply in lactation 
either. Maybe now we are getting to more than 3%  reproductive failure as a 
species, and are on our way down..........or even out?  We are poisoning the 
air, changing the climate............sorry. I'll  stop.
    Maybe our technology is all a giant mutation? We  are certainly changed 
our reproductive processes, including lactation.
    warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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