Thank you. I got a lot of pushback and flack when I said something similar about the baby formula shortage. People have this notion that there are millions of women who can't breastfeed who MUST have formula for their babies. I like to ask people what they think happened before these formula corporations existed. Do they think millio…
Thank you. I got a lot of pushback and flack when I said something similar about the baby formula shortage. People have this notion that there are millions of women who can't breastfeed who MUST have formula for their babies. I like to ask people what they think happened before these formula corporations existed. Do they think millions of babies just died because there was no Similac? It is ludicrous.
The existence of mother's groups sharing milk and milk banks is slowly arriving but these sources have been around a long time. Oddly the NYT had to write about the risks of such alternatives as if the risks were significant. As this article indicates the effort to eliminate nature continues.
As I understand it, every woman who has breast fed has the capability to do that even into old age - if I'm wrong I hope to be corrected. Aside from our fear of others, why should there ever be a shortage of human milk for human babies?
Yes, that's my understanding too. You can resume breast feeding just from the stimulation of a child nursing. But also, it's pretty easy to create a short term "formula" in an emergency that is far superior to anything sold by a corporation. When I'm reading these news stories about infants who are showing up undernourished and dehydrated because of the formula shortage, it makes me wonder if their parents have full cognitive function. Of course, it doesn't help that every corporate source is screaming that it isn't "safe" to make your own formula. Yes, I'm just sure people couldn't safely feed babies before the existence of powdered seed oils and soy.
Howdy, Linda! (as well as all here at this 'stack') Well stated
Yes, I believe many 'parents' today do suffer from lack of cognitive function----due to too many injections, especially the most recent one, as well as reliance on chemical meds. Also, due in part to lack of community & family support for breastfeeding & other natural ways of caring for our health. The true wisdom that used to be passed from Mom to Mom in a family and community is sorely lacking (or non-existent) in most areas of the world today.
The thought of 'making your own' ANYTHING seems to be foreign to far too many of the younger generations. Just try to mention things such as gargling with warm salt water for a sore throat & watch the reaction. Happened to me with a young one (teen-age now) and you would have thought I had horns & snakes growing on my head the way she looked at me! She had never heard of such a thing....only chemical meds. So, so sad
Wait--are you saying that before there was powdered infant formula, that any baby whose mother couldn't breast feed just died? Or that any baby without a wet nurse just died? That no one made milk substitutes for infants? They made milk substitutes for infants in ancient times!
Lol. yes that’s exactly what I’m saying. Are you saying they didn’t?! The substitutes were like boiled walnuts or animal milk with breadcrumbs. Many infants were malnourished or died because of illness of these “substitutes” you speak of lol. Like why are you exalting this? And nostalgic for a time when enslaved people were forced to breastfeed and also infants died? Formula and modern science literally keep babies alive today. Not saying they should escape criticism but all of this is so tone deaf and wrong.
This is insane. People successfully fed babies for millennia without highly processed soy and seed oils. I'm sure some babies died, just as today, but not having some corporation make formula in a factory was by no means a death (or malnourishment) sentence. People used goat's milk or mare's milk and whatever cultural additives they thought were healthy. "Enslaved people were forced to breastfeed"? WTF are you on? Seriously, I think you are commenting on the wrong page if that is your world view--and I am by no means against "modern science." Powdered infant formula does not represent modern science--more like corporate greed. FFS.
Thank you. I got a lot of pushback and flack when I said something similar about the baby formula shortage. People have this notion that there are millions of women who can't breastfeed who MUST have formula for their babies. I like to ask people what they think happened before these formula corporations existed. Do they think millions of babies just died because there was no Similac? It is ludicrous.
Welcome to my world...
The existence of mother's groups sharing milk and milk banks is slowly arriving but these sources have been around a long time. Oddly the NYT had to write about the risks of such alternatives as if the risks were significant. As this article indicates the effort to eliminate nature continues.
As I understand it, every woman who has breast fed has the capability to do that even into old age - if I'm wrong I hope to be corrected. Aside from our fear of others, why should there ever be a shortage of human milk for human babies?
Yes, that's my understanding too. You can resume breast feeding just from the stimulation of a child nursing. But also, it's pretty easy to create a short term "formula" in an emergency that is far superior to anything sold by a corporation. When I'm reading these news stories about infants who are showing up undernourished and dehydrated because of the formula shortage, it makes me wonder if their parents have full cognitive function. Of course, it doesn't help that every corporate source is screaming that it isn't "safe" to make your own formula. Yes, I'm just sure people couldn't safely feed babies before the existence of powdered seed oils and soy.
Howdy, Linda! (as well as all here at this 'stack') Well stated
Yes, I believe many 'parents' today do suffer from lack of cognitive function----due to too many injections, especially the most recent one, as well as reliance on chemical meds. Also, due in part to lack of community & family support for breastfeeding & other natural ways of caring for our health. The true wisdom that used to be passed from Mom to Mom in a family and community is sorely lacking (or non-existent) in most areas of the world today.
The thought of 'making your own' ANYTHING seems to be foreign to far too many of the younger generations. Just try to mention things such as gargling with warm salt water for a sore throat & watch the reaction. Happened to me with a young one (teen-age now) and you would have thought I had horns & snakes growing on my head the way she looked at me! She had never heard of such a thing....only chemical meds. So, so sad
So sad
Lol yes they did
Wait--are you saying that before there was powdered infant formula, that any baby whose mother couldn't breast feed just died? Or that any baby without a wet nurse just died? That no one made milk substitutes for infants? They made milk substitutes for infants in ancient times!
Lol. yes that’s exactly what I’m saying. Are you saying they didn’t?! The substitutes were like boiled walnuts or animal milk with breadcrumbs. Many infants were malnourished or died because of illness of these “substitutes” you speak of lol. Like why are you exalting this? And nostalgic for a time when enslaved people were forced to breastfeed and also infants died? Formula and modern science literally keep babies alive today. Not saying they should escape criticism but all of this is so tone deaf and wrong.
This is insane. People successfully fed babies for millennia without highly processed soy and seed oils. I'm sure some babies died, just as today, but not having some corporation make formula in a factory was by no means a death (or malnourishment) sentence. People used goat's milk or mare's milk and whatever cultural additives they thought were healthy. "Enslaved people were forced to breastfeed"? WTF are you on? Seriously, I think you are commenting on the wrong page if that is your world view--and I am by no means against "modern science." Powdered infant formula does not represent modern science--more like corporate greed. FFS.