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Helen Butler <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:29:34 +0100
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I've just found my copy of   Cicely's biography.  The deprivations  suffered were indeed terrible.  Awful though  it was in the camp  there was perhaps more support available to  the  mothers in the camp [and more mother to mother support] than there is to  mothers in war/disaster zones.  'Dr Margaret Smallwood looked after the children and their mothers,  seeing them all  daily and ensuring the fair distribution  of any available food extras,  for which nursing mothers and the  sick had priority.'

Helen
England


In 1941, Dr Cicely Williams, was interred in a Japanese concentration camp. Like many of those so interred, she suffered terrible conditions: 
starvation, disease, lack of medical care.
She helped those she were interred with her. During that time... "20 babies were born, 20 babies were breastfed and 20 babies survived." She 
went on to pioneer work in how much infant formula, and infant formula marketeering, damaged babies' lives and health.

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