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Q&A–: What is the evolutionary history of breastfeeding in our species?
What is the history of breastfeeding in homo sapiens and our ancestors? At what age did early humans stop breastfeeding?

Did it help advance our species?

What do you think when someone refers to modern breastfeeding as “disgusting and primitive. We are not cavemen”

How does breastfeeding tie into “survival of the fittest”?

The following is the answer: (Hint: The correct answer provided by the users, does not guarantee the right.)

Answer by liveinluve
okay?

Answer by SEXY
I don’t believe in evolution. Pray to God that he will provide the answers that you are looking for regarding breast feeding. Bless you my child.

Answer by peachiepie
When i think of the history of breastfeeding, I think of the first woman, Eve. After all she didn’t make a milkman now did she? Not only that,cows milk was meant for calf’s, and the human brain would come into play more so than “breastfeeding” when your speaking of the survival of the fittest!

Answer by thc451
Breast feeding is great for the child’s immune system- anybody who tells you otherwise is a jaded, self loathing narcissist- my oxymoronic term for yuppie, child bearing children haters.

Answer by Mathilda
If you take a look a modern hunter gatherer tribes, they breastfeed the children until they are four (average age) or five. They feed them pretty intensively until they are over two.

This has two effects. It acts as a contraceptive, and it provides a safe source of fluids for vulnerable babies and toddlers.

The contraceptive part is important. Until about 20, 000 years ago all humans seemed to be moblie hunter gatherers, moving from one site to another. You can’t have more than one babe in arms at a time if you are living like that. Child number one has to be walking before the new baby comes, you can only manage one at a time.

Also, hunter gatherers had a lower child mortality rate than early farmers, there’s less exposure to communicable diseases, and the odds of contaminated water are a lot lower. The nutrition of the hunter gatherers was also a lot better, they were about 4 inches taller than farmers from the same era.

This means women didn’t need to be baby factories, they didn’t need to have eight babies just to get two to survive, five or six would have been sufficient, so they could space the pregnancies out with prolonged breastfeeding. Also, giving birth is DANGEROUS, it was the number one cause of adult female death through history, so you wanted to avoid the risk if you could, and keep your existing children’s mother alive.

I have two children that I’ve breastfed for three years each. They rarely got sick as babies, and never got dehydrated when they had diarrhea or vomiting. Apparently their IQ is six points higher for it too.

People need to get a life if they have a problem with it.

Answer by kaaarma
It’s thought to be wrong today but early people without clothes would have fed the child as long as that child wanted. Pushing off the child only when other children came along forcing the child to have to give it up. Women would have helped each other with feeding the child, creating a closeness that we today can only half way guess about. It helped advance by creating a close society where children felt like they had many mothers. The mother child relationship is thought to be the way that we become to feel emotion for each other creating the feeling of being hurt when someone else is actually hurt.

Answer by varnold001
It didn’t just advance our species it was our survival. What do you think our ancestors would have fed us as newborns? Water? We would have died. All warm blooded mammals breastfed until they were old enough to eat what the adults ate. They were taught what to eat by the adults.

Answer by tehabwa
Uh breastfeding LONG pre-dated humans — all mammals breast-feed, so it’s a vry old innovation (compared to human existence).

It helped mammals since mothers don’t have to find as much food as oftn, to keep their very young alive.

I don’t know if anyon knows how long arly humans breastfed (in the snse of what age th young stopped breast-feding).

Peopl who disapprove of breastfeeding at all are silly; those who disapprove of public breastfeeding less so.

(Bottle-feeding was a really recent thing — less than a hundred years is my guess.)

Answer by GranolaMom
Kathryn Dettwyler’s book “Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives” is an excellent read, and the most thorough look at breastfeeding and anthropology I’ve found.

Answer by cobaltaja
I really like Mathilda’s answer I’d also like to add that if you go by our closest relative in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzee, breastfeed their infants until 5 years of age. That would put the human infant between 4 and five years of age as well. Perhaps a bit longer if you consider the large size of the human brain and the helplessness of the human infant at birth.

Breast fed babies have an IQ 6 points higher than their formula counterpart. I’d say higher intellect would advance our species. Breast milk also has stem cells which compensate for some deficiencies int the new born as well as Hemoglobin’s that boost their underdeveloped immune systems helping insure their survival.

This is a sad opinion that is unfortunately all too common in American Society. It is recommended by World Health organization ALL babies be Breastfed until 2 years old. This is a minimum requirement. Too many women in the United States are sold into a lie perpetuated by hospitals getting grant money from formula companies to sell a product that is deficient at best. In this country even though we claim to follow WHO policy formula companies continue to market directly to consumers. It is simply not enforced.

Studies have proven that breastfed babies have a markedly lower incidence of Respiratory disease, diarrhea, ear infections, urinary tract infections, meningitis, and Sudden infant death syndrome. Building a healthy strong baby ensures the survival of the species and heck it save me tax dollars.

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Question–: I stopped breastfeeding and want to start again, suggestions on how to get my milk producing?
My son is 8 weeks old now, and I stopped breastfeeding at around 4 weeks. I still have some milk, because when I squeeze my nipple, milk comes out. How can I get my milk production back up to continue breastfeeding? Or is it too late?

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Answer by Natalie H
I don’t know if it’s too late, but breastmilk is produced on a supply and demand system, so the more your baby feeds from your breast, even if she’s only getting a tiny bit of milk, the more your breast will produce. I would try each time she’s hungry to put her on the breast, let her drink what’s there until it’s completely empty, and then formula feed her the rest of the meal. Gradually you’ll make more and more milk if she keeps sucking. I’d also try a supplement like fenugreek to up your production.

Answer by Sarah K
You can relactate, but it’s a lot of work.
You need to get a hospital grade pump and pump every 2 hours for 15-20 minutes.
You need to get baby to nurse as often as possible. Baby may become frustrated because there is no milk there, so I would suggest getting a supplemental nurse (medela has one, and so does lact-aid) www.Medela.com or www.lact-aid.com (I liked the lact-aid one better) It is an investment though whereas the medela one is cheaper and may be available from an LC.
Take fenugreek (3 capsules 3 times a day) or blessed thistle. You can also get an RX from you obgyn called Reglan. (or you can order domperidone but much harder to get)
You can also order More Milk Plus from motherlove.com (It’s a combo of herbs that may help than just the single ones.
I would also try www.mobimotherhood.org. They have a whole list of herbs to take to help milk supply.
I would google relactation (www.kellymom.com has a lot of info. Or Dr. Jack Newman does too)
Eat long cook oatmeal. (It really will help)
The more you stimulate the more you will make. You may not have your full supply back, but it will be close.
I tried to go back to nursing after strictly pumping and she refused because my milk was so slow. You may have better luck.
Email me if you need any more info
jaygirl01@yahoo.com

Answer by Sessa
Like the other poster said, pump pump pump, as much as you can with an electric pump.

I had a low supply and this did it for me. If you try now it may not be too late. I had to keep pumping until around 4months, when finally my milk supply adjusted and I got to where I needed to be to exclusively breast-feed my baby.

If you are comfortable with it and can do it responsibly, you could ty co-sleeping with the baby as the night-time feeds stimulate milk production more than any other time of the day. Prolactin is higher in the early hours. You could try breast-feeding lying down, that’s what we did anyway and baby and you both go back to sleep with baby attached.

Breast=feeding releases a hormone that makes you feel sleepy so that you go back to sleep when baby wakes for a feed, but it also releases a hormone that stops you entering the 4th stage of sleep, the very deepest sleep, to stop you from rolling onto your baby.

Anyway, I digress, good luck with it, hope you get it back

Answer by LuvAct
Hi, I agree with Sara K. she gave a great inside. For me was very helpful drinking tea with milk (English style). I drunk a cup(big one) an hour before breastfeeding and I felt it coming. There is many other natural stimulants, but I would be afraid to suggest something without knowing your physical conditions and allergies.
Also I am sorry to disappoint you, but when you squeeze the nipple milk shows up it is not necessary that you have milk left. I breastfed my daughter for almost a year and I was able to squeeze some milk out three years after.
Good luck.

Answer by Deliciously N
get a prescription for reglan and pump/put him to breast every two hours

Answer by loyo
Get a pump and express. Eat a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables. Drink a lot of fluids, not caffiene. The more stimulation your breasts have the better. A looser bra allowes for more expansion. Warm showers, using a warm compress helps also. Let the baby nurse, stimulating your nipples in any way encourages milki to come back. Supplement the babys’ diet with formula until you are sure that there is enough breast milk to keep it healthy. If the baby loses weight, see a doctor.

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