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Nancy Warren Rinaldo's avatar

We need to stop convincing women that their career is more important than their baby. If you can't take at least five years to raise your baby get a goldfish. Breast is always best. Human milk has ingredients that formula will never have.

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Brandy's avatar

I agree. Formula will never replace the important and long lasting health benefits from breast feeding. If they aren't spending more time and resources advocating for breast feeding, they are doing a disservice to infants.

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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

See my comment below. Braun

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Aliss Terpstra's avatar

Breast milk is the very best for every baby, but when a mother cannot provide it, FED IS BEST. USA is the only developed nation that does not provide maternity health care (which greatly influences breastfeeding success that begins at delivery), and a paid maternity leave, which has been shown time and again to increase the length of time that babies are nursed. The reality is that American mothers DO go back to full time work after giving birth, out of necessity. It is extremely rare for part time work to provide health care benefits so for many mothers, full time work is the only option for a roof over head and food on table. Few workplaces accommodate breast pumping to maintain supply. Babies MUST be fed. So this is a plea for either a far better commercial infant formula product, or stop censoring information about making your own formula from fresh ingredients (e.g. the Weston A. Price Foundation recipes) and telling parents that they must not try to make their own.

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Nancy Warren Rinaldo's avatar

Let's hope that President Trump's economy will allow more families to not only survive, but thrive on one income when the children are small as it did in the 50's.

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Aliss Terpstra's avatar

My mom was a teacher before marriage. She taught after getting married until pregnancy complications forced her to quit. My parents had medical debt due to my sister's premature birth and couldn't pay rent while my Dad was in seminary school, so moved back in with her parents. Mom had to go back to work again two years later as a teacher when I was two months old due to more medical debt. This was Michigan, in 1953. Those years were not the financial paradise you think for many families including ours. Dad's income as a church minister was never enough to take care of our family of four kids, even with free housing, so my mother worked as a teacher before and after each of us was born. My father often bottle fed us and changed our diapers. None of us was nursed for longer than a few weeks. But - breastfeeding was simply not encouraged in the fifties, even if one income was adequate.

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Diamond's avatar

The American Dairy Association was the second largest contributor to the American medical Association so breast-feeding was discouraged high discouraged and drinking cows milk was highly encouraged. Tramp doctors.

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Steve  Mitzner's avatar

AMA branch of the 60 Billion in Fraud fines Big Pharma cartel! [Fact!] We need more death and Fraud!...Satan cried!

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Nancy Warren Rinaldo's avatar

Dear Aliss, It sounds like your heroic parents fought a very tough battle to raise their children in difficult life circumstances. Their dedication and devotion to you all is inspiring. How wonderful that your mother nursed you all for a few weeks after you were born so that you had the benefit of receiving the immunity boost from her, and the important closeness it gives the new little human being arriving in a strange world. You are so right that breastfeeding was not encouraged at that time. I was born in 1944. My mother was told by the doctor to put alcohol on her nipples before every feeding and so surprisingly had to deal with weeks of cracked and bleeding nipples. I'm surprised he didn't tell her to pour boiling water over her breasts! Sterilize those breasts!!! She got through that, but was also told that she had to stick to a strict 4 hour schedule. If you have nursed, you know that as the baby grows and needs more milk, the baby wakes more often and nurses more frequently and the amount of milk increases. If you don't feed the baby more often, your milk won't increase. So my mother, sadly, told me that she just "didn't have enough milk when you got bigger." I wonder how many babies that doctor nursed? There have never been "perfect" eras in our civilization and all of our experiences have been vastly different, but I do think that in some ways it used to be easier to raise a family than it is now. Your mother also did a wonderful thing for you.....she gave you that beautiful name.

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St. Mudphud's avatar

I don’t disagree at all; breast is indeed best. However, as a caveat, I can state with certainty that there are some moms who struggle with producing breast milk for one medical reason or another, and some babies who struggle with feeding on breast milk, for one medical reason or another. I welcome a revisiting of what is in infant formula so that families who are struggling to feed babies breastmilk can be confident in their options as a backup.

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Steve  Mitzner's avatar

I believe goat milk is the next best thing! But getting moms out of the home is the best way Satan has to bring the chaos needed to destroy our once strong Church and Home, for a strong Godless world / Satan's culture! (Whos only rule is, "If it feels good do it.")

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Nancy Warren Rinaldo's avatar

How did I miss this post? I so agree our strength as a country is based on strong, responsible, kind, loving parents raising their children with the courage and knowledge to live a productive, Godly life. When I was little, I read everything I could find, from cereal boxes to encyclopedias, so of course I read all of my mother's magazines. I remember there was an article in one of them about the fact that in the USSR all of the little children were sent to child care centers while their mothers were at work. This so horrified me that I had to talk to my mother about how awful this was! I never would have thought that our country would end up in the same place. Thanks, Steve

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Steve  Mitzner's avatar

@Nancey: Being raised in a Christian and Republican home I watched the McCarthy senate lynching on TV that upset me then, then with McCarthyism being a pejorative noun to this day! Then in the 70’s discovering the FBI at the time had all the info on what Joe was claiming i.e. the venona intercepts, I.e. women cryptologists who cracked thoes 250 commie spies code, [I.e. meaning Roosevelt’s friends] [at the time] [steeling A-Bomb secrets] proving everything Joe said was true! Then the Bork lunchin clown show onTV pubic hears and all!

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Jill Herendeen's avatar

Maybe if moms got paid to BE moms, they wouldn't need an extra career in the first place.

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Nancy Warren Rinaldo's avatar

Yep, it's all screwed up isn't it. Moms are doing THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB IN THE WORLD but you'd never know it from the support we get.

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Steve  Mitzner's avatar

Moms/ women in the workplace increase the labor supply so as to lower labor costs! I.e. supply & demand economics 101! And as a bonus helps bring chaos to the now [so-called] one-parent, wild, world-raised kids' [so-called] households, I.e. more a feral type household!

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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

They need to test all mothers to be for nutrient deficiencies. D and Folic Acid are key. All should have a vitamin D blood value of 50 ng's or more and not 20 ng's which is seen as the norm which is erroneous. In turn, Mom can breast feed adequately and provide colostrum in adequate quantities to keep the infant healthy. If Vitamin D is deficient the breast feeding gene will NOT be turned on! My wife had that issue of no breast milk with a D of 9 ng's!

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Brandy's avatar

That's a great idea. Women need more support to breastfeed from whatever medical/birthing system they choose to use.

Having chronic high blood sugar can also affect some women's breast milk supply due to the resulting hormonal imbalance, which can often be corrected with changes in the diet. I am not insinuating that this is what your wife suffered from, just mentioning it because it can be a problem for some women and I'm not sure that women are guided with their dietary choices that can help them be more successful.

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Diamond's avatar

It also forms the mouth properly so the teeth have space and alignment. My first son refused to eat food until he was two years old he only nursed he has enough room for another tooth behind his wisdom teeth.

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letterwriter's avatar

The American economy now assumes by its structure that households will be two income. In order for women to not feel the real financial pressure to not only work, but to rise at work until the family's income is sufficient to children's increasing educational and nest-leaving support, the state must get involved. There is no market pressure that can produce the necessary change: no single company *now* benefits from children *in the future* having been brought up differently. Market theory only functions for transactions in the present day and for investments when the investor retains ultimate control over the assets invested.

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Nancy Warren Rinaldo's avatar

Hmmmmmmm. Hmmmmm. YES!!! AND THAT'S WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS DOING!!!! The state is getting involved!! I knew if I thought about your post long enough, I'd figure it out. Thanks!!!

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letterwriter's avatar

You're welcome! How do you think he's doing this, or possibly laying groundwork? He's certainly making some changes and argue about method aside it's clear there are problems in many areas that he and some of his cabinet are looking into. (It's too bad that the medical/science stuff is being somewhat kneecapped by industry thus far but it's early days). But some of the changes he might make don't seem to me like they quickly produce a shift in the economy's expectations that a family can revert to single income--but it's tricky. I feel as though ejecting financial industry (fintech and banking) from control positions might be essential but that seems even tougher than ejecting pharma.

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Nancy Warren Rinaldo's avatar

Well, just as an immediate reaction, the idea of cutting taxes for the working/middle class especially is intriguing. Tax on salary, purchases, property is triple taxing, making it almost impossible to save. Now they're trying to figure out how to tax retirement accounts? My daughter is thrilled with the idea of no tax on overtime as her husband works for Xcel Energy and is sometimes called out in the middle of the night during storms and is gone for days. Then on the next paycheck, half the money goes to taxes.

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letterwriter's avatar

If that can be done, I agree, that would really change things. I know exactly what you mean--the OT gets taxed as though one's making that every week and is in the highest bracket--it's rough! It's really a disincentive considering how much the other partner has to pick up the slack when one's gone all week.

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Steve  Mitzner's avatar

" Cutting taxes for the working/middle class", especially by having them pay 25% more for import stuff How taxing or "Free Marker" is that?

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Nancy Warren Rinaldo's avatar

But isn't buying imported product a personal choice? If we can bring manufacturing back, there would be more product made in America. It used to be a big deal to "buy American." Now I'm trying to think of what I buy that is imported. Out of season fruits at the grocery store? But then I'm ancient and don't need much.

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Steve  Mitzner's avatar

Big Gov. I.e. your, "state must get involved" is the problem! [Fact!] Starting with our 1620s pilgrims/ "State involved"/ Government. It brought death and disharmony Godley Governor Bradford said it was like trying to play God! so he dumped it for a Capatilest form! Then Godless-playing god Marxists came and murdered 110 million, enslaved billions, trying to make your silly "state must get involved" system work!

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letterwriter's avatar

oh but my first response was to the general principle. We now have to deal with the specific issue facing us now, which is that the economy now both depends on and puts unopposable pressure on the American family so that two earners is necessary. People who go on social media talking about how they've pulled back and only have one earner aren't likely addressing all the competitive factors that make a family successful, economically. Setting kids up with education and housing without debt is huge and really influences their own family's success, for example.

Because the economy is now as it is, it will require state intervention to change it to a less productive, less fully involved form, which is what a one earner family is.

If the economy had never had two earners become the norm, this would not be the case, but it is the case and there is no pure market theory based solution that will produce a reversion.

There is also not an ideological change that will magically swoop in and make all the women want to stay home. To dream of that would be to dream of totalitarianism by another name. Freedom of conscience is one of the tenets of our constitution, remember.

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Steve  Mitzner's avatar

I think soon men will need 2 or 3 working wives just to help pay down the fake Ponzi scam debt! Right now each taxpayer owes over 2 million to the privet banking industrial Satan-inspired banking complex!

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letterwriter's avatar

dream a little, I guess

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letterwriter's avatar

well, have you read Aristotle on politics? The government must fit the economy and the rest of the factors in the world or it will not work; it will crumble.

In the 17th century there was land to the west which served as a pressure relief valve. That doesn't exist today and so the form of government has to respond to pressures proactively it can't just be a do-nothing body and let things "work out" by dint of dissatisfied people leaving. There is nowhere more for people to go.

In the 1600s in what became America, government was more local but not more loosey goosey oh no. One of my ancestors kept getting into trouble for stuff unremarkable today, for example.

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Steve  Mitzner's avatar

Government, playing god policies failed in our 1620's Prilgrams time, 1917 Marxist times! Adam Smith proposed government must leave the economy alone I.e. Laissez faire!

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letterwriter's avatar

Read Aristotle on politics. I promise you, it is an easy read. That's about all I can give you. If you think that government is "playing god" I wonder what you think the natural outcome of scrabbling ungoverned in the ditches of an 8 billion populace no-government world would be. You were alive and old enough to watch the seattle garden of zero governance weren't you? What did it take for a warlord to move in on the situation? Was that two weeks or perhaps as many as three? I really don't recall them lasting a full three weeks.

We are not living in the neverneverland of the wilderness-rassling axe-toting hero of the unpoliticized, and that manly figure never existed as the men's magazines have sold the throbbing image. Success in those sorts of endeavors have always required broad and deep erudition, anyway, and most people who bang on for *no* government do not have that.

Really. Read Aristotle.

He can help people contemplate what the *right form* of government means for any given combination of factors, with no historical moment being identical to any moment that came before, especially not the moments that were only fantasies pitched to the voters.

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Rob D's avatar

Great news. Yet the elephant in the room is still the "vaccines" mandated for all of these little lives. Parents could choose what formula they buy for their children and read the labels. Unfortunately, they don't get to choose the "vaccines" and are coerced into making sure these little lives are shot full of poison...

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Jill Herendeen's avatar

If moms got paid to BE moms, they wouldn't need day-care centers which refuse to accept babies who haven't "had their shots". Just sayin'.

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JOY  OLSEN's avatar

I've seen testimonies from parents who had to order their baby formula from Europe to get one that is not toxic. For one thing, the high sugar/fructose content of most baby formulas sets up infants from birth to be diabetic.

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Michelle Rabin Ph. D.'s avatar

Hallelujah. Imagine that, safe infant formula. I can hardly wait to see what else he's going to be doing, going forward. Thanks for sharing this critical information.

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Brandy's avatar

Hopefully they are spending more time and resources encouraging women to breastfeed as the lasting benefits of breastfeeding are not replaceable.

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AussieManDust's avatar

What can be said about a society whose Corporations can not even make baby food safe? BABY FOOD, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! Kill a couple of CEOs of companies with shit products, watch the reforms ripple! FFS...

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Aliss Terpstra's avatar

When I was first pregnant I researched home-made infant formula recipes just in case. The best I found were from the Weston A. Price Foundation. Fortunately I never needed to supplement any of my babies, but many of my peers had difficulty. So powder or concentrated formula were the options, since pediatricians overwhelmingly frown on home-made formula with dire warnings of malnutrition and gastrointestinal infection but never warn about the neurotoxic effect of feeding formula reconstituted with fluoridated tap water. I am about to become a grandmother. I just doubt whether any corporate formula maker will achieve formula with wholesome nutrition plus affordable cost. So if my DIL cannot nurse the baby I hope she'll let me teach her how to make something better than denatured milk proteins from factory farmed cows injected with BGH, and added iron filings, synthetic vitamins, algae source DHA, GM vegetable oil and GM corn syrup.

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stephen's avatar

It's a start. Organic, No GMO, no sugar, no hydrogenated oils, no MSG etc.

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nymusicdaily's avatar

or maybe the cabal wants all the babies to be slurping up their moms' quadruple-jabbed breast milk?

a subterfuge to put bug protein in the formula maybe?

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stephen's avatar

I'd go with goats milk.

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VictorDianne Watson's avatar

Such good news!! However, breastfeeding is best and we need to encourage more women to do it.

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Mike Wood's avatar

Is it true Dr Joel Wallach sued the government to force them to add selenium to infant formula?

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Karen Bracken's avatar

Shame they do not support the healthiest nourishment for a new born baby.......breast feeding. Baby formula to me is fake food.

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Jan Rush's avatar

WHY are OBs not encouraging women to breastfeed???? Are they that compromised and bought off?? Is it Big Pharma?? I don't get it. There is NO formula no matter how pure the ingredients that replaces what babies get from their mother

Pumping is a piece of cake these days with the really good pumps that are available. Something

is REALLY wrong.

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Susan Supeene's avatar

From a breast feeding coach friend: Every mother who had a covid shot, even before conceiving, had a tongue tie baby. Also some babies with tongue tie had mother's who had had dpt or flu shot. When detoxification pathways are compromised, folic acid cannot be utilized, thereby causing mid line defects.

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Michele Welborn's avatar

Really??? None of my pregnant friends who had the injections in the Uk had tongue tied babies. I'm apalled they were offered jabs, and can't believe they agreed to the injections. However, thank heavens their babies were not born tongue tied.

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Susan Supeene's avatar

Two possibilities come to mind.

Tongue tie defect can appear on a scale of disability, so possibly not enough to cause breastfeeding issues.

Also, the Astrazeneca vax was not an mRNA vax. Here it was all mRNA.

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Steve  Mitzner's avatar

The once 1in 30,000 kids with serious disorders is now 1in 36! Our 60 Billion in fraud fines and leader in cause of death/ iatrogenic "medicine" will tell you it's not the toxic jab's fault! Teaching us that Godless fraudulent people need and demand fraudulent Godless medicine! [Fact!] (So you get the Hell a little sooner) who cares? Right?

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LW's avatar

I'm sure DT had his hands in naming this 'operation xx speed', but I just HATE this name!!!!!!!! Any tie to the clot/ death shot is a no go imo.

Great additional thoughts here, mentioned by others above.

https://sayerji.substack.com/p/breaking-news-hhsfda-launches-operation

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