Getting Pregnant While Unhealthy & Breastfeeding

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Getting Pregnant While Unhealthy & Breastfeeding

When a person has candida it means they are very unhealthy. Being unhealthy

alone means the body is already lacking the nutrients and strength it needs in

order to support a pregnancy. And if a woman is also breastfeeding a previous

child it just adds insult to injury, not only because of her own health but also

for the health of the developing fetus.

The least a woman can do when she is in that situation is to stop breastfeeding

since the breastfed child would be old enough to eat normal foods and can be

perfectly healthy without breast milk.

Dr. Weston A. Price writes the following in his book Nutrition and Physical

Degeneration, Chapter 17, One origin of physical deformities - available online:

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/price17.html

It is significant that while these important factors are just coming to light in

our modernized civilization, the evidence clearly indicates that several

so-called primitive races have been conscious of the need for safeguarding

motherhood from reproductive overloads which would reduce the capacity for

efficient reproduction. For example, G. T. Baden (3) in his book " Among the Ibos

of Nigeria " states:

It is not only a matter of disgrace but an actual abomination, for an Ibo woman

to bear children at shorter intervals than about three years. . . . The idea of

a fixed minimum period between births is based on several sound principles. The

belief prevails strongly that it is necessary for this interval to elapse in

order to ensure the mother being able to recuperate her strength completely, and

thus be in a thoroughly fit condition to bear another child. Should a second

child be born within the prescribed period the theory is held that it must

inevitably be weak and sickly, and its chances jeopardized.

Similarly, the Indians of Peru, Ecuador and Columbia have been familiar with the

necessity of preventing pregnancy overloads of the mother. Whiffen (4) in his

book " North-West Amazons " states:

The numbers (of pregnant women) are remarkable in view of the fact that husbands

abstain from any intercourse with their wives, not only during pregnancy but

also throughout the period of lactation--far more prolonged with them than with

Europeans. The result is that two and a half years between each child is the

minimum difference of age, and in the majority of cases it is even greater.

It may also be important to note that the Amazon Indians have been conscious of

the fact that these matters are related to the nutrition of both parents.

Whiffen states that:

These Indians share the belief of many peoples of the lower cultures that the

food eaten by the parents--to some degree of both parents--will have a definite

influence upon the birth, appearance, or character of the child.

This problem of the consciousness among primitives of the need for spacing

children has been emphasized by Brown (5) in his studies among

Melanesians and Polynesians in which he reports relative to the natives on one

of the Islands as follows:

After the birth of a child the husband was not supposed to cohabit with his wife

until the child could walk. If a child was weak or sickly, the people would say,

speaking of the parents, " Ah, well, they have only themselves to blame. "

All the best, Bee