Support for breaast feeding

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Ronald McDonald House in Houston anti-NIP

Posted by: " Heather B " punkalicorn moonfirefaery

Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:56 am (PST)

 

A family staying in the Ronald McDonald House in Houston because of

one of their 17 month old twins had to have brain surgery to remove

a tumor last week. The mother is still nursing the twins and was

asked to stop nursing in the communal area and take it up to her

room. She tried to explain that Texas law prohibited making a

nursing mother go to a private place and that it would be very

inconvenient to take all of her children up 3 floors to their room

every time her sick child needed to nurse. She argued with them for

30 minutes and was threatened with eviction, but they wouldn't back

down. Her sister who is nursing her 3 year old talked to the

administration. She said she'd examine the law and move on. The next

day they find out they may be kicking the family out for not

complying with their " interpretation of the law. " which is that if

they provide somewhere else for them to nurse they don't have to let

them nurse in public places. The director has been very rude about

it, even telling the family they'd be sorry if they went to the

media and so on. We've been sending letters, and the family is still

fighting but they are still being told only to nurse in their rooms.

The director is even contacting the RMH attorneys about the matter.

 

If you guys wouldn't mind writing letters, the Director of

Operations of the Holcombe location is Arlene Whatley.

awhatley@rmhhouston .org She is the one who wants the folks to nurse

in their room. The Executive Director is nscott (AT) rmhhouston (DOT) org and

the Director of Administration is srichard@rmhhouston .org. Arlene's

# is 713-795-3570. Please send letters notifying them that they

don't have the right to do this, how important breastfeeding is and

how it shouldn't be hidden, etc. I have told them I'll be boycotting

McDonald's and withholding donations to the RMH until this is

resolved.

[Guest guest]

Author would like to bring in how the breast feeding is supporting

mother too from the epidemic of PCOS, irregular, scanty or abnormal

flow periods. It would also help conceiving very easy for next

pregnancy.

 

Modern lifestyle pressure makes procreation optionally declined, or

severely restricted. As a result women lead a life miles away from a

natural biological role. Addionally synthetic milk formulas and

treating the breast as an ornament, rather than a feeding organ, give

holiday to natural biological function. If you add the use of

contraceptive hormones, hormone replacement therapy, an increasing

load of estrogenic pollutants in the environment and food, and a diet

that has diverged from its natural design, the formula for hormonal

pandemonium, metabolic dysfunction and disease is in place. The

results are manifest today in early menses in children (beginning as

early as eight and nine years of age), infertility, abnormal and

erratic menstrual cycles, cervical dysplasia, fibroids, endometrial

cancer, breast cancer, premenstrual syndrome, dramatic mood swings,

depression, osteoporosis, and the hot flashes, psychological

problems, decreased libido, thinning of the vaginal wall and other

symptoms of abnormal menopause. Ever present yeast infections is a

common symptom.

 

Ayurvedists often recommended hunter-gatherer's diet for getting rid

of

modern chronic diseases. Similarly if women would have as many

children as they are capable of, nurse them for years as they are

designed to, eat natural foods and live in a more pristine

environment, their modern health problems would disappear. Although

the ideal biological lifestyle may not be possible for any of us

today, we can try to align our lives to the ideal as far as possible.

 

Women need to fulfill their reproductive role to achieve metabolic

balance and health, but at the same time they do not want to be

restricted by the burdens of large families, nor are large families

socially or environmentally responsible. In an attempt to solve this

dilemma, the quick fix of synthetic hormones is tempting. There are

hormones to

control conception, modulate abnormal menstrual

cycles, for sex drive and to fix menopause, but the price is heavy;

as malignant tumors especially likes the areas of body where copious

blood

supply

is available when needed, reproductive organs are the worst hit by

malignancies. Proper exercise, diet and lifestyle choices can have

the same beneficial effect without the potential consequence of

cancer.

 

Living in tune with nature is protective against the

female cancers. The average mom today chooses to give birth to about

two infants. On the other hand, even today, tribal women in the

natural setting start menstruation and ovulation at age 12 and

deliver a number of babies and breast-fed them all. When they

breastfeed, many feed up to five or more years. Pregnancy stops the

reproductive hormone cycles (that generate estrogen) since there is

room in the uterus for only one pregnancy. Nursing also stops the

cycle because the body " knows " that lactation and caring for an

infant is about all one body can endure.

 

Thus the modern woman with two children would reproductively cycle

and ovulate more than 400 times during her lifetime. On the other

hand, the combination of more numerous pregnancies along with

extended breast-feeding would have decreased the number of ovulations

and cycles that a primitive mother would have had to less than 50.

The cycling through menstrual periods an abnormal number of times,

causing repeated surges of estrogen--about eight times more than

nature intended, when coupled with the lack of adequate exercise,

yoga, pranayama; how would one expect body to provide so much

bioenergy needed for ovulations? Little wonder that estrogen

sensitive cancers abound in our modern world. And ovaries get tired,

so periods limp, or become weak and scanty. Most of such cycles are

an-ovulatory. This makes coception most difficult. This phenomenon

is similar to

men facing fertility problems as a result of excess sex,

masterbation etc.

Increase in prostate cancers is also an indications of our modern

lifestyle

driven situation.

 

The resting periods of lower estrogen that women experienced in the

tribal lifestyle during pregnancy and lactation serve as a protective

effect against cancer. Women today can even dramatically decrease

their risk of reproductive system cancer by nursing their young for

even as

little

as two years. The prolonged feeding will take care of weight gain

during pregnancy also. Additionally, the fresh foods of the natural

diet contain phytoestrogens. These compounds are able to attach to

estrogen receptor sites in the body and prevent the stronger ovarian

estrogens from attaching to tissues. However, the phytoestrogens only

exert a mild estrogenic effect while not promoting cancer. ven then

author feels

that they should not be sued for a long time. Hormones are master

regulators of

body function. They should not be

manipulated either by lifestyle choices or synthetic medications

without serious

consequences. Women do well to think of their genetic

heritage and try to live life as close to that as possible if health

is the goal.

 

Coming to your irregularities in cycles, either taking aloe vera pulp

early morning empty stomach for three months can make the cycles

follow the calendar, or you can take aloe vera based ayurvedic pills

(Rajapravartini Vati, Kanyalohadi Vati, Eladi Vati) discussed in

earlier messages which can be searched by these tablet names. The

treatment needs to be continued for three months.

 

Despite the author favoring the primitive lifestyle in tune with

biological function for women, there is another side to the coin. The

body uses periods as an ideal opportunity to eliminate waste products

in blood. Hence women retain very soft, blemish free and glowing skin

compared to the men as long as cycles go. Any attempts to stop the

cycles should therefore be in tune with the nature and all attempts

should be made to continue them in regularity.

 

The Yoga, meditation, walking, breathing techniques should be given

the first choice after the cycles are regularised by using

phytoestrogens.