baby food (was Herbs & Toxins; Natural Hygiene Notes;

[Guest guest]

Hey Laurie!

 

Yes, and to be quite honest, I still see the same misguidedness at the

co-op grocery store (like a health food store). Everyone seems to

think if it's labeled organic, it must be healthy. It is SAD, organic

style.

 

Janet

 

rawfood , " Laurie Swanson " <laurie wrote:

 

I remember having a similar, eye-opening experience years ago. I was

at a regular grocery store and looked at the carts full of Doritos,

soda, fruit roll-ups, etc. I thought, Just because we CALL this FOOD

doesn't mean it IS!

 

Laurie

rawfood , " Janet FitzGerald " <waxplanet@> wrote:

 

I go to the regular grocery stores to get meat for my dogs to eat.

While I was in line at the register, I looked at all of the food

people were buying. It was really SAD. One shopping cart was full

with only one item of produce; a head of lettuce.

 

Janet

[Guest guest]

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Janet FitzGerald

>So, even if the option to

buy milk from other mothers was there, I'm not convinced it is the

best way to go. I tend to think my best option is to get the best raw

foods into her.

 

Hi Janet,

The WHO lists infant feeding options, in order of preference, as being:

1. mother's milk from the source (ie physical breastfeeding)

2. mother's milk from an other source (ie bottle, or otherwise feeding

expressed breastmilk)

3. donor mother's milk (ie a wet nurse, or from a milk bank, in order of

preference)

4. infant formula

 

Depending on the child's age when she joins your family, raw foods may be

the best of your options.

 

>I do remain open-minded about the topic and wish to learn much more.

However, it has been difficult to bring this topic up in the raw world

since few people are in the same situation. There is another parent

on this list with a child from China, but both her daughter and mine

are well past the breastfeeding stage.

 

Read the article I posted the link to (I forget the exact link, but if you

go to the ABA website, at www.breastfeeding.asn.au and search for

relatation, or adoptive lactation, you'll find a couple of articles), as it

has some good information on how to get it started, not all of the methods

require drugs, though as always, drugs speed up the process.

 

>This is a topic I could go on and on and on about. I need to start a

list for raw adoptive parents, or something.

 

I'm happy to discuss this topic, though I haven't adopted a child, and only

birthed one so far. I think it's great that you put the effort in to wean

your daughter off the foods fed to her in the orphanage, and get her started

on some good healthy foods, it's never an easy battle!

 

Caron

[Guest guest]

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Elchanan

>Well, one part of that ad is correct ... cow's milk IS terrible for them!!!

 

yes, but only until they're 2 years old, then the dairy industry gets them

;o)

 

>Caron, you are absorbing and processing like a living sponge!

 

" shall I compare thee to an inanimate sea creature? " aww, shucks ;o)

 

Caron