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Tue, 12-16-2008 - 2:48pm

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Fri, 12-19-2008 - 12:45pm

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I think this loss occurred almost certainly was tied to the creation and rise in infant formula use. The way this loss would have desired would likely be something like this. Take a town full of breastfeeding mothers. As formula becomes more popular, the daughters or grand daughters of these BFing mothers would would as time progressed start choosing to FF instead. These FF moms would then push their daughters and granddaughters to FF too. Soon the BFing grandmothers and great grandmothers would pass on severing the only connection to BFing in the family. Since neither the daughters nor grand daughters BFed, they would not be able to pass on the knowledge. There would of course be those who refused to buckle to the push for FFIng as a better option (such the founders of LLL) and they would preserve the knowledge they had of BFIng and pass it on their daughters and any friends who choose to consult them for help in BFing. But those that bucked the trend were a very small number of moms. Thus for most moms, the knowledge was lost.

Also, as more and more women ended up seeing doctors for birth and post-natal care of their baby, as apposed to midwives, they was this expectation that doctors where the best source for advice on infant feeding issues. The problem was (and still is to a large degree) that doctors where not very well trained about BFing. This only helped speed up the problem. The creation of Le Leche League in the U.S. started a turn around in the preservation of BF knowledge which eventually led to the creation of the lactation consultant profession in the 1970's.

For this loss of BF knowledge to have occurred before formula was invented would have required their to have been an viable alternative to BFing which their wasn't. You would only loss the knowledge of how to do something only when there was no longer a need for most if any people to know how to do it.

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So far as I know, I know of no country where formula is not legally sold in some way. I think it is possible that many rural general stores or markets in some third world countries would not have it on the shelf.

-Charleen

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Fri, 12-19-2008 - 12:48pm

Interesting about the red meat allergy ... I was reading recently some discussion about babies w/ dairy protein allergy (in mom's milk).

 


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Fri, 12-19-2008 - 12:52pm

Thank you for the compliment!

 

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Fri, 12-19-2008 - 12:53pm

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Fri, 12-19-2008 - 12:57pm

We first thought it was the red dye in the beef, so we ordered a bunch from a dairy farm, undyded. Nope, it was the red meat protien, which is smaller then in milk apparently, but really allergic kids often have issues with it.


The thing about Red dye up here is that only 1 pedi antibiotic (Batruim I think) was not flavoured or dyed.


Then they took it and dyed. We had to get all meds like that through an IV either

              *Praying for my best friend, my Dad*


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Registered: 10-27-2006
Fri, 12-19-2008 - 12:58pm

She lists (and rejects) the objections to breastfeeding current at that time: "it spoilt the figure," was "noisome to one's clothes," and "interfered with gadding about" (20).


These seem rather current to our time as well...

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Registered: 01-07-2007
Fri, 12-19-2008 - 1:02pm

He's doing well, thanks for asking! He'll be 17 months old on the 24th and still nursing. I honestly never thought I'd be doing it this long!

Good point. But what I'm saying is that I believe that there were instances way back when where a mother didn't want to.

Sorry this is so short, nak'ing!

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Registered: 10-27-2006
Fri, 12-19-2008 - 1:05pm

Had I known in college what I know now, I very possibly would have done my senior thesis on breastfeeding!

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Fri, 12-19-2008 - 1:08pm

"Then why before ready-made formula were they creating all those different feeding aparatuses to supplement or replace breastfeeding?"


Well, I said "more likely".

Cathie

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Fri, 12-19-2008 - 1:21pm

First of all, I LOVE it when I'm so behind on the threads that others come and do my research before I can.

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