Re: Breastimmunization: Hyperbole vs. HyPOberle

From: Jenrose (jenrose_at_nospamjenrose.com)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:43:08 -0800

"Todd Gastaldo" <tgastaldo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:8WBld.26036$KJ6.20495@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> BREASTIMMUNIZATION: HYPERBOLE VS. HY**PO**BERLE
>
> Jennifer Rosenberg writes:
>
> "[Y]ou hyperbolize on the immunities issue."
>
> Jennifer, I cannot think of a more beautiful immunization production
> system than a breastfeeding mom...
>
> I hyperbolize - but only just a little. : )

You missed my point entirely, that promoting milk banks for the
immunological benefits of breastmilk is misleading, since I believe most
milk bank milk is frozen, and thus the leukocytes are destroyed.

The benefits of breastfeeding are huge, and wonderful, and even frozen
breastmilk is better than formula. But if your concern is the
"immunizations", please be clear that breastmilk immunities last as long as
a baby is nursed, and not long after that. I don't like vaccinations
much--hard to like something that leaves your baby frighteningly lethargic
for 12 hours and triggers illness and temporary gross motor delays.. my
personal experience here. But while vaccines aren't 100%, when they do have
an effect, it lasts, in general, longer than breastmilk's direct effect.

I don't doubt the benefits of nursing for a second where keeping kids
healthy is concerned--it was almost a given that as soon as someone in the
playgroup would wean, the next meeting they'd gripe about how their kid had
gotten a cold and been sick ever since they stopped nursing--and most of the
moms in my playgroup nursed their kids at least a year, most more like 18
months, and two of us nursed our kids to age 5.

Jenrose

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