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 Michel Odent has said that we are evolving the inability to give birth among the human species in only a few short generations simply by virtue of the experiences that infants are having when their mothers do not give birth normally. I have learned that the particular egg which is released by the ovary of the human mother is determined based upon a biochemical "reading" of the environment in which it is to be released. The same theory goes--if the environment is unsafe, the egg will be geared toward survival, but if it is safe, then more esoteric potential is selected. Further, it is now known that women can and do grow NEW eggs in response to such "readings". This is why I think that the malnourishment of the average American woman is directing some potentially tragic genetic expression and why I think that the period before conception is so essential, that the period of gestation is critical and that birth must be embraced as the sacred incarnation it is meant to be. If such were to happen,? feeding at breast would be a given. 



Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA
Intuitive Parenting Network LLC

 






Dear Friends:

In this week's Newsweek Magazine, Sharon Begley has a fascinating article
entitled "The Sins of the Fathers, Take 2".
http://www.newsweek.com/id/180103

I'll quote a paragraph: " Some water fleas sport a spiny helmet that deters
predators, others, with identical DNA sequences, have bare heads.  What
differs between the two is not their genes, but their mother's experiences.
If mom had a run-in with predators, her offspring have helmets.......if mom
lived her life unthreatened, her offspring have no helmets. .......Somehow
the experience of the mothers, not only her DNA sequence, has been
transmitted to her offspring."

The article goes on to cite other examples, and discuss a paradigm shift in
how we think about inheritance of traits.

Now, being a LC, I thought of breastfeeding. Could this notion of experience
be transmitted in humans? If a mother didn't breastfeed, but went through
the physiologically disrupting experience of premature involution, could
that experience be transmitted to some later offspring? Could this concept
be one more reason (besides a lack of support, respect and value  for
breastfeeding and/or the impact of generations of pollution) on the
breastfeeding problems we all see too often?

What do you all think?

warmly,
Nikki Lee
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