Dear Friends:
    This is a painful and important topic to  discuss.
    My personal belief is that relationships are  suffering as a result of 
toxic capitalism (where profit is more important than  health and truth), and as 
Dr. Michel Odent calls it, an impaired ability to  love. Love has no value as 
a result of the Industrial Revolution,  which has blown families and villages 
apart as adults had to leave to go work in  the factories and cities where 
the money was. As a result of factory mentality,  birth and death moved to 
hospitals. This move was never for the good  of the babies; it was for the training 
of physicians, although the public was  encouraged to believe that it was 
'better' to birth in a hospital. Even today,  where women have a 1 in 3 chance of 
being cut, hospitals are still considered  "better" somehow.
    How can a baby induced out of its womb, before it  is ready, to a mother 
similarly unready learn to love?
    We are living in sympathetic mode, either fearful  or angry, neither of 
which is conducive to loving. This is a cultural phenomena,  fast becoming a 
global one.
    Fortunately, we Lactnetters represent the  parasympathetic mode, the 
oxytocin-driven model and can support each other in  these tough times.
    How can a mother get close when she has to leave  her baby at 6 weeks?
T. Berry Brazelton identified 30 years ago that women would choose not to  be 
too close with their babies because it hurt too much to leave them.
    warmly,
       
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, RLC, CCE
craniosacral  therapy practitioner
Faculty, Lactation Division Maternal-Infant Program,  Union Institute
Film Reviews Editor,  JHL
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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