Milk Matters - June 2011
Dear Colleague
In my last Newsletter I conjectured that the seemingly world-wide inundation of our living spaces by water from a variety of sources is perhaps an attempt by Mother Nature to send Humanity a message, and proffered for your consideration the rubric:
Dreams: floods, streets, in: lac humanum
Humans are the only species who drink the milk of another in order to survive. In making that choice we swap mortality for morbidity and the psychological and physical sequelae are well documented. The reasons why we do this are complex and it's a constant struggle for the modern woman to achieve a balance between what she gives to herself and what she gives to her infant. Currently 90% of women in Australia initiate lactation. However, only 14 % of them are still breastfeeding at six months. This fact gives cause for us to consider more closely the primary aetiology for an energetic dose of lac humanum (either by the homœopath or by Mother Nature); namely the denial of asatisfactory breastfeeding experience; lack of nurturing by the mother.
The WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding for six months with continued breastfeeding for up to two years. Anthropologists observe that primates lactate for six times the gestation rate and we know from scientific study that the baby's brain is still differentiating up to the age of three years and the gut is still maturing at four years.
Species-specific milk is, therefore, the most desirable option. However, for the woman who struggles to establish her lactation or finds herself in a situation where she has to wean, her choices are currently limited. Either she can feed her baby with formula made from the milk of another mammal or with a plant-protein based formula.
This is not an easy time for the woman who planned to breastfeed for longer and values the importance of human milk for optimising her infant's development. What I suggest in this situation is that she takes steps to preserve her breastmilk so that her little one can continue to obtain the specific benefits that her milk can offer, in the form of a sarcode.
Share this recipe with all the mothers you know.
I hope you find what I have to share both interesting and beneficial.
Best wishes
