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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

THE MYTH OF ROMULUS & REMUS

Romulus and Remus—Peter Paul Reubens from Google Art Project “We are a therapeutics company leveraging human milk biology to create ne...

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

OF HURRICANES, AN INFANT FORMULA RECALL, AND MORE PATENTS

“A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulf...

Friday, August 5, 2022

Reflections on raining avocadoes, baby wrens and World Breastfeeding Week

“Aggressive marketing tactics are not unique to poor countries, nor is government inertia and nor is infant death. During the 1980s in t...

Monday, June 13, 2022

9 INFANT DEATHS DUE TO CRONOBACTER NOT 2 INFANT DEATHS

“Reporting illnesses helps health officials understand how disease occurs and to identify outbreaks. Botulism, E.coli, Listeria, Salmone...

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About Me

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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