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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

There is a Pigeon in the house...

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Life is beautiful. Life is complex. Look at the daisy and we see the beauty, the complexity of life. If only one were a flower like the da...
Monday, April 13, 2009

The International Conference on Lactoferrin, probiotics and Medela in Africa

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photo by Jessie McClain The concluding remarks of Dr. Tony Schryvers at the 8th Conference on Lactoferrin, "Finally with bovine lactofe...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

$$$stem cells and other medicinal properties of breastmilk

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photo by Jessie McClain "Research shows that breastfeeding provides multiple lifelong biologic advantages to children, including increa...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The Case Against Infant-formula-feeding, part 2

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Sunset..... Would you ever see an article entitled, "The Case Against Infant-formula-feeding" in magazines or newspapers? Nope. Th...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The Case Against Infant-formula-feeding

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photo by Jessie McClain Those darn beavers damning up "our" river!! Just like people they take a good thing and create mayhem. But...
Friday, March 27, 2009

The value system that can create "The case against breastfeeding"

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"Mary lost in the garden of thought" The decision to breastfeed by middleclass, college-educated women seems to be predicated on ...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Female Middle-Class Angst in "The Case Against Breast-Feeding."

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Hanna Rosin's article in The Atlantic has raised a furor among breastfeeding advocates. I read her article and was amused and delighted ...
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Valerie W. McClain
How does one describe oneself to those who landed on this page in this virtual library called the internet? I was born in Canada and moved to the USA when I was six years old. I graduated from the State University College of New York at Potsdam with a BA, majoring in political science. Got married, got divorced. Got married again, had children, got divorced. I birthed all my babies at home, breastfed them, and became a La Leche League leader for 10 years. I became an a IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) in 1991 and retired that credential in the fall of 2011. I was employed by the WIC Program for 4 years in Volusia County, Florida. In 1998 I began to question the reasoning behind denying hiv positive women the right to breastfeed. In my research for answers I stumbled upon a human milk component patent to be used to treat hiv/aids patients. Thus began my quest to understand why so much of the real knowledge of human milk is buried.
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