tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200215035892294417.post2156958737395222018..comments2024-01-03T22:28:09.041+00:00Comments on <center>Natural Child, Natural Society</center>: Ten Principles of Mother-Infant Bonding for Health, Happiness and Harmony ....corneiliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07286709354765150574noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200215035892294417.post-90227599650433303172010-05-05T13:44:15.907+01:002010-05-05T13:44:15.907+01:00To Anonymous, I take your point that it's not ...To Anonymous, I take your point that it's not useful to put Mums under unnecessary pressure, or to encourage a situation where guilt is likely. However the pressures that exist within our culture regarding parenting and motherhood are the real problem here, and those are not addressed by your comment.<br /><br />Those pressures are Societal - such as the nuclear family, processed foods, two working parents, the 'teachings' of Spock and others, the childhood history of the mother herself, a society that denies support unless one is prepared to participate in the economy, religious beliefs, a sexuality divorced from nurture and commercialised. These pressures translate into very damaging experiential learnings that harm the developing brain of an infant. I have written about this elsewhere.<br /><br />When a mother is allowed to understand that those Societal pressures have no place in healthy parenting, when she is 'let off the hook' so to speak, breast feeding and many, many other aspects of parenting become much much easier, more natural. The body knows how to parent. It is innate. The pressures of Society mask that knowing. Intentionally.<br /><br />That intent is proven by the suppression of Prescott's work, by the ways in which Governance ignores the work of Alice Miller, by the ways in which Governance today is blocking the process of taking the Catholic and other Churches to court, to face open and public accountability for their 1600 year long Institutional abuse and cover-up of that abuse<br /><br />Many mothers go to the bottle, not because breast feeding is not working, but because of those outside pressures - the milk formula business is a HUGE international business with a powerful lobby at the political level. <br /><br />It's in their interests that formula is promoted, interests that happen to dovetail with those who espouse a violent, militaristic Civilisation devoid of empathy.<br /><br />Society as we know it cannot function profitably unless most parents are working in the 'economy'. Who benefits, and who loses out?corneiliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07286709354765150574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200215035892294417.post-4848950650162539342010-05-05T09:33:29.621+01:002010-05-05T09:33:29.621+01:00In regards to breast feeding it concerns me that c...In regards to breast feeding it concerns me that content such as the above (point 5) puts unnecessary pressure on new mums. It is unrealistic to expect all mums to breast feed. Breast feeding is not an easy task. Many women can not breast feed for any number of reasons beyond their control. Which raises the point, what is in the 'best interest' of the baby and mum, a happy and settled forumla fed baby or a baby who is in pain and traumatised because they are starving and breast feeding is just is not working. I believe every mother is doing what is best for the baby and for themselves. Why must people make mum's who can not breast feed feel as guilty as hell by implying that by not breast feeding we are causing almost 'abuse' to our babies. A little more empathy please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200215035892294417.post-75085479735381700002010-04-09T18:17:30.533+01:002010-04-09T18:17:30.533+01:00I can finally comment!! I'll be linking to you...I can finally comment!! I'll be linking to your previous post on Sunday. Love your blog!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06773235393702832137noreply@blogger.com