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Ralph and Gina Tufano wrote:
> 
> <Big Ole Snip>
> 
> I know this thread has been around for about a week now - and I'm sorry
> to say that I have not read the original post - BUT - This is truly
> ludicrous!!!  Breastfeeding is the best thing a mother can do for a
> child - and it has become more and more difficult for women to do so.
> With working full-time, formula available at the drop of a hat, short
> hospital stays where little-to-no information is given on breastfeeding,
> the physical demands placed on the woman - no one else can take the baby
> for feedings; the change in diet - no caffiene, no alcohol, no meds when
> sick;  And now to top it off - there are some people who believe we
> should only do it at home?!?!?!?
> 
> For a so-called "family oriented" society - we sure have a lot to learn!

At the risk of sounding conspiratorialist, let me note that there are
many concurent trends which seem to add up to something rather nasty.

There's been a long-term push to detroy the practice of midwifery for a
long time, as well as to eliminate or restrict natural medicines and
herbalism. There are laws on the books in many states which make it
completely illegal to give birth outside of a hospital, whether or not
there is a licensed physician attending. And now, an assault on the
practice of breastfeeding.

It's almost as if the general idea is along the lines of some sort of
psychological-warfare/"re-education program" with the goal of eventually
divorcing our animal heritage (hey, we are born, we live, we die, we eat
drink and occasionally be merry along the way) from our
increasingly-proprietary marketing-victims-cradle-to-grave existences in
an increasingly-artificial world.

The "forces of civilization" really need to face up to the fact that we
human beings are indeed animals, very complex ones at that. Being
intelligent animals, we have every right to understand our needs,
instincts and heritage. We need to know from an early age what we need
to eat, to drink, what exercises we need to be healthy. Since an
essential part of life is our family life, reproduction and
child-rearing, we especially need to know how to have and to raise
healthy children.

A nutritionist shouldn't be necessary, but optional. A physical
therapist or exercise-coach sholdn't be necessary, but optional. A
hospital stay, be it a "drive-through delivery" or a lengthier stay,
should not be mandated but optional.

It should be optional, but not required, to:
- have licensed medical care throughout pregnancy and delivery and
post-partum periods.

- artificial proprietary nutrition for infants

- non-parental childcare and child-rearing and primary-education.

The right to be an independent human being in a free society is, IMHO,
predicated upon a woman's control of her reproductive and nurturing
capacity. If a woman wants to take the risk of a natural childbirth in
the surroundings of her choice, that should be her right. If a woman
wants to breastfeed her child instead of feeding it
manufactured-and-marketed chemicals, that should be her right. If a
woman wants to teach her child in the tender years, that should be her
right.

Otherwise, we run the risk of having our children fed we-know-not-what,
of having our children estranged from our traditions and ways, being
taught we-know-not-what by the paid servants of we-dast-not-ask-whom,
and eventually becoming a society of perfect drones in service to a
well-oiled hive which pretends to ignore the human condition even as the
medical community reduces us to globs of proprietary protoplasm to be
manipulated at the most basic levels, mere cogs in the wheels of
society, broken machines to be repaired or harvested for replacement
parts for other, better, more-useful drone-units.

I could be grossly over-reacting, but it seems to me that women have
come too far to allow themselves to be deprived of this most basic
communion and bonding betwen mother-and-child, the essential and
formative time which has traditionally been so formative of personality
and being. To allow this trend (or this instance of this trend) to
continue is to submit to a paternalistic patronized status as a
regulable reproductive unit, whose child remains hers only so long as it
resides within the womb. This is nothing less than an invasion of
women's reproductive rights, and of parenting rights in general, which
must be resoundingly defeated.

Unless mommy is very very sick, the doctor does not know best, the
nutritionist does not know best, the formula-marketers do not know best
- mommy and Mother Nature know best what's best for baby.


> 
> Just my opinion!
> 
> Gina

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