breastfeeding question from a friend

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A friend sent me the question below. As I have no answers

here, I thought I'd pass it on to this list to see if anyone has any

thoughts on the matter.

 

Alobar

 

> I've been curious why it is that it should be

> that human mothers can potentially have so much

> trouble with breastfeeding, which they apparently

> do. I'm not a zoologist, but it seems to me that

> if all species had that level of potential

> trouble feeding their young, there would be a lot

> less mammals on the planet because a significant

> portion would starve to death. But anyway, it

> just seems odd to me that a significant portion of

> women *do* have so much trouble, and it's not for

> lack of effort on their part, that I can tell. I

> wonder if different cultures have different

> 'trouble rates' with breastfeeding, or if it's

> something that's consistent across the species.

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'Prescription for Nutritional Healing', 2000 has a detailed section on

breast feeding problems. These problems are not inherant to humans they are

related to nutritional and environmental issues.

 

Blake

 

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" Alobar " <alobar

 

Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:21 PM

breastfeeding question from a friend

 

 

> A friend sent me the question below. As I have no answers

> here, I thought I'd pass it on to this list to see if anyone has any

> thoughts on the matter.

>

> Alobar

>

> > I've been curious why it is that it should be

> > that human mothers can potentially have so much

> > trouble with breastfeeding, which they apparently

> > do. I'm not a zoologist, but it seems to me that

> > if all species had that level of potential

> > trouble feeding their young, there would be a lot

> > less mammals on the planet because a significant

> > portion would starve to death. But anyway, it

> > just seems odd to me that a significant portion of

> > women *do* have so much trouble, and it's not for

> > lack of effort on their part, that I can tell. I

> > wonder if different cultures have different

> > 'trouble rates' with breastfeeding, or if it's

> > something that's consistent across the species.

>

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--- Alobar <alobar wrote:

> A friend sent me the question below. As I

> have no answers

> here, I thought I'd pass it on to this list to see

> if anyone has any

> thoughts on the matter.

>

> Alobar

 

I think it's because animals don't eat junk, for one

thing. They eat natural foods. Still, there are

times when animals *can't* feed their young and the

young do die (or the mothers eat them, as mice do, for

example). In animals that are community oriented,

some young will be fed by other mothers in the group

(the way it is done in many human tribal communities).

 

Julie

 

 

> > I've been curious why it is that it should be

> > that human mothers can potentially have so much

> > trouble with breastfeeding, which they apparently

> > do. I'm not a zoologist, but it seems to me that

> > if all species had that level of potential

> > trouble feeding their young, there would be a lot

> > less mammals on the planet because a significant

> > portion would starve to death. But anyway, it

> > just seems odd to me that a significant portion of

> > women *do* have so much trouble, and it's not for

> > lack of effort on their part, that I can tell. I

> > wonder if different cultures have different

> > 'trouble rates' with breastfeeding, or if it's

> > something that's consistent across the species.

 

 

 

 

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