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Susan Stockwell <[log in to unmask]>
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Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 4 Dec 2001 22:50:41 +0000
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>From: "Rachel Myr" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Susan Stockwell" <[log in to unmask]>
>CC: "Rachel" <[log in to unmask]>, "Melissa Vickers" <[log in to unmask]>,
>   "Kathy Koch" <[log in to unmask]>,        "Kathleen B. Bruce"
><[log in to unmask]>,        "Karen Zeretzke" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: Mental Health and Lactation
>Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 19:53:28 +0100
>
>Hello Susan,
>I imagine this was a post to Lactnet, not just to the listmothers, so just
>send it again, to [log in to unmask] and the whole list will get
>it!
>cheers
>Rachel Myr
>listmother
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Susan Stockwell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 4. desember 2001 17:26
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Mental Health and Lactation
>
>
>Some years ago in the UK a charity ran a campaign with the slogan
>Schizophrenia, a National Emergency. In my previous work in family law I
>was
>constantly in contact with very anxious, stressed, often violent people
>whom
>as a lay person (not medical) I would say were in poor mental health. Some
>time ago the UK press reported some US research (somewhere beginning with P
>sorry) on poorer mental health in later life resulting from permanent brain
>damage in infancy due to the excessive release of a stress hormone. It was
>suggested as a result that babies be comforted at night or sleep with
>parents to avoid this.
>The formula industry has done such an excellent PR job over the best part
>of
>a century in convincing western society that a baby's normal sleep patern
>is
>all night that persuading a mother to breastfeed at night is a real uphill
>struggle. Could not the endemic depression, stress,anxiety stress related
>illness such as allergies,asthma and exczma be attributed to the treatment
>of infants. I understand that breastfeeding cultures are horrified by our
>practise of leaving infants all alone at night.
>Any body got any thoughts/research out there on this alternative approach
>to
>getting nightfeeds back as the normal expectation of motherhood?
>
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