Hekate
Hekate's JournalOf course we have no idea what you've done. But given the energy with which you tear down...
… Meghan and Harry, you’re kind of obligated to let us know.
As for being a “fan,” I just don’t like seeing people slimed for trying to get on with their lives with the resources they have. I don’t see them grinding the faces of the poor into the dirt. They have certain resources, which I certainly don’t — she knows the film industry, for one thing. He was brought up to do a stint in the military and perform charitable works and show up.
I also wasn’t a “fan” of Harry’s mum, but the way she died was public and horrible. In my life at the time I was doing a midlife stint in grad school, and keeping godawful hours. I’d come into the kitchen for another cup of coffee about 2am and turn on the little tv on the counter. One night, there was the death of Diana.
In the nights and days that followed, I learned more about her charitable work than I ever had before — and I realized something. The shy young woman who had once described her intellect as “thick as a brick” — the despairing woman who divorced a prince — the glamorous woman of means who could have spent her life jet-setting — somehow had found a way to do good in the world.
Diana used what she had: her charm, her warmth, her ability to bring many cameras to the scene. Mother Theresa’s orphans, children dying of AIDS, children losing limbs to landmines — all of them got a good turn in the spotlight and attention was paid to their causes thanks to her. And she meant it. The photo ops were for them.
You’re off this thread if I’m not mistaken, but I have a good idea of what you’ll say next time we meet. I’m sure you despise Diana, too. Frivolous woman who only went to finishing school and couldn’t hack it as a prince’s wife. Clothes-horse. Yadda yadda.
Screw that. Sure I have a soft spot for this little family. I look at Meghan and think: California career girl. I look at Harry and think: better use sunscreen in California, you redhead. And good luck to you both.
Maybe. Several days ago I hunted for the old one that MinMan produced -- and couldn't find...
…exactly what I remembered. I was born in 1947 and am the big sister (I was pressed into diaper service at age 6, and was proud of being thought so responsible) meaning I remember a lot of things first hand.
Anyhow, I couldn't find the “real” recipe, and am glad MinMan did. What I did find was people tweaking the recipe to reduce the sweetener (wrong — mother’s milk is sweet because babies need the sugars) and scolding comments from wet-behind-the-ears doctors who thought homemade was actively dangerous and that the only acceptable substitute for mother’s milk was something expensive produced in a factory.
I understand the desire to have something nutritionally perfect. My gods do I understand that. I also understand the desire to go natural and breast feed — I did LaMaze births and I nursed my two kids for 13 months each.
But here’s the dirty little secret about the wave of going natural in the 1970s: we can’t all do it, and if I had had any kind of supportive advice whatsoever I could have been spared 2 years of mostly agony from cracked nipples and clogged ducts. I was determined as hell to do the right thing — and it never got better for long.
My babies grew plump and healthy and came out smart as anything — but I am here to tell you that my Mom’s babies also grew plump and healthy and came out smart as anything on the homemade formula from canned milk she used, after she was actively discouraged from doing what came so naturally to her, which was breastfeed.
There are indeed babies who can’t digest cow’s milk, and there are other gut conditions and medical conditions as well — they need the factory-made formulas all the time, and god bless them.
But I would say the majority of infants will be more than adequately nourished by the very same recipe in the OP. Boil the water, use clean bottles and nipples — store in the refrigerator at once. Give the baby pediatric liquid vitamin supplements. And for gods’ sake don’t think you are harming your child permanently.
When I answered “maybe” to your question it’s because I really don’t know what alternatives folks are coming up with these days to try to cheaply achieve something as complicated as the expensive brand name items. A chemistry set, right? Or the (expensive) items in a “health food store.” I just know fads come and go and I’d be wary.
Resume what you’re comfortable with when the shortage eases, and all the best to you and your little one.
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Namely Mr. Hekate, who does not want to get involved with DU, but his ears pricked up and next thing I knew I had these notes handed to me. 
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My whole life when it was illegal, there were 3 exceptions:rape, incest, life & health of the mother
That was understood to be right and righteous. See? We’re not heartless. We don’t actually want to kill womenfolk for things they have no control over.
It was hard to prove those things, and beyond reporting rape or incest to the police right on the spot ( ha. ha. ha. ) — and proving it ( ha. ha. ha. ) — well never mind.
“Life and health of the mother” had a bit about the woman’s mental and emotional well-being — basically she had to go before a panel of doctors and prove her case. Physically was probably easier to prove, and presumably her own doc would be on her side as she lay in bed with eclampsia.
Then there was the flip side to the prohibitions and permissions. #1 Daddy or hubby is rich and well-connected. Problem solved. #2 Be Catholic and bear your cross even if you die.
#2 was the reason Protestants didn’t ever trust Catholic hospitals for women.
There ya go.
Nixon, by the way, was a man of his time regarding rape and miscegenation.
One more word: as the red states have gone on their merry way to making abortion a hanging offense, so to speak, one thing that has forcibly struck me is the lack of any exceptions. See? They are truly heartless.
Bitterly,
Hekate
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