This is a funny and sarcastic article written on Squitmom.com about research that was performed to prove that babies could survive on the 1st 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding.
My favorite part:
"If MOST women weren’t capable of supporting infants with breast milk, humans as a species wouldn’t have thrived. But we did. And substitute or supplement infant food is very, very new in the grand scheme of human evolution."
Article - Shocking New Research Shows Women Can Breastfeed Successfully!!
Showing posts with label milk bank. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Nursing for Others
This is old news, it happened in 2009 but here is a photo of Salma Hayek b/f an African baby who was literally starving to death. I just read about this on another b/f blog and immediately had to find the story. I'm not a big fan of hers but this was an incredible gesture. To offer yourself to nurture another woman's baby because she had no milk to give him. This is what the cliche means "it takes a village to raise a child." It gave me some questions...
would I donate to a human milk bank?
would I purchase from a human milk bank?
would I step in to nurse a friend or family members baby if they needed help?
what would our society say about this?
We seem to just barely accept the sight of a mother nursing her own child. Even with all of the education out there telling us it's best. We are still squimish and prudish about it. Unless the breast is there on show we don't want to see it. Women's breasts are there for the pleasure of men right? How would someone react if I were in public clearly b/f a child that wasn't mine?
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