can you mamas please educate me as to where this phrase originated? also, i've gathered (from reading on here) that it represents a change in how BF is conceptualized...
moving from "breast is best" (BTW, is this basically taken from LLLI's point about BF being the "superior" feeding method??) to the "biological norm" idea is supposed to promote BF as natural and normal rather than the better of two valid options. is that basically correct? so in a sense, the argument here is that calling BF "superior" rather than simply normal still begs a comparison to FF and sort of makes FF seem legitimate, if inferior?
i'm trying to get a handle on this because i'm doing some academic research into breastfeeding and feminism and want to think more about the move from "breast is best" to the "biological norm" idea. please educate me, both on the ideas here and on their respective sources. thanks!
moving from "breast is best" (BTW, is this basically taken from LLLI's point about BF being the "superior" feeding method??) to the "biological norm" idea is supposed to promote BF as natural and normal rather than the better of two valid options. is that basically correct? so in a sense, the argument here is that calling BF "superior" rather than simply normal still begs a comparison to FF and sort of makes FF seem legitimate, if inferior?
i'm trying to get a handle on this because i'm doing some academic research into breastfeeding and feminism and want to think more about the move from "breast is best" to the "biological norm" idea. please educate me, both on the ideas here and on their respective sources. thanks!
: Cows are meant to drink milk from their mother's udders, monkey babies survive by being fed milk from the human body, and yes, breast IS best. Formula is "good enough" , and does result in happy and healthy babies when the breast is truly not available. I'm sorry if that offends people, but in fact, it's the truth. Breast is the norm, and it is superior to formula; there is not argument there. Formula is the next best thing to expressed breastmilk, and if a mother has tried to breastfeed and can't, that's what it's there for. I don't think that any mother should feel as though she failed her child if she cannot breastfeed, and my statements aren't meant as such at all. However, biologically and nutritionally, breastmilk is the norm. It's why females were made with breasts, because mother nature intended for human babies to drink human breastmilk. Where no formula is available, mothers breastfeed. It's quite simple.
