The Church and Eco-Breastfeeding

Your book, The Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding: The Frequency Factor “deserves maximum distribution and publicity.”  Fr. Paul B. Marx, OSB (October 26, 2009)

Should the Church teach eco-breastfeeding and natural child spacing?  Is it fair to say that eco-breastfeeding is God’s own plan for spacing babies?
Consider the following:
      Research since the Sixties shows overwhelmingly that breastfeeding impacts fertility for the family and for a nation.
      The only type of breastfeeding associated with extended natural infertility is what we call ecological breastfeeding.
      Eco-breastfeeding, on average, provides a mother with a year or more without menstruation and thus provides a year or more of natural infertility.
      For a breastfeeding mother to experience menstruation within three months after childbirth should be the exception, taking nature as the norm.
      Eco-breastfeeding’s natural spacing of births means abstinence-free NFP.
      Breastfeeding is at the end of the reproductive cycle, not childbirth.

WE BELIEVE:
      Every engaged and married couple has the right to have this information.
      Eco-breastfeeding is a holy and bodily activity.  Therefore, it should be taught in every course dealing with the theology of the body.
      The Church should promote ecological breastfeeding in its teachings and documents.
      Reading The Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding will help you gain a proper perspective on eco-breastfeeding.

Next week:  How to “green” the teaching of NFP

Sheila Kippley
The Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding

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