In a message dated 11/18/2005 4:09:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
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Breastmilk  has to get very polluted before formula looks safer. The 
insidious underlying  message when there is talk about "something" in mothers' milk is 
"The MOTHER  is a risk to her own baby." That, my friends, is a dangerous, 
patronizing  concept at best.



Dear Friends:
    Yes!! 
    This message, that the MOTHER is a risk to her own  baby, is also implied 
in the notion that bedsharing is dangerous. 
    Coach Smith nails this.
    Gotta watch out for these mothers.............. it  is far better to put 
our sweet babies alone on their backs in their cribs to  sleep with a chunk of 
plastic in their mouths. IT is also better and  safer to feed them chemically 
altered bovine milk. If we leave it to  mothers, lord knows what will happen. 
(Tongue drilling hole in cheek  here).
    Our notion that mothers should listen to  Science was born in the early 
1900s, where the notion developed that babies  would be spoiled by mothers who 
would cuddle and kiss them and fill them full of  germs. We haven't come very 
far, have we? (Another reason to read Chapter 1  of Deborah Blum's terrific 
book, Love at Goon Park, is that she gives a  marvelous historical overview of 
that era.)
    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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