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Q:

If nursing a baby is included in the great gifts of Hashem in this world, as you said earlier, why is it that so many people today neglect the privilege of nursing their babies?

A:

Mostly it’s because of yielding to the environment. Monkey sees, monkey does. That’s the truth in most cases.

However, some feel it’s an inconvenience. They can’t run around every day in the department stores because they have to be on time to feed the baby. And some have other reasons. Most of them, not valid.

However, today it’s realized that two big errors are being committed. One error is, the child is being deprived of what he needs — he’s not getting the exact nourishment that’s made to order for him. If you feed the child a formula, even the best formula, it doesn’t fully make up for mother’s milk. Because no matter how smart the doctors are, they have not yet discovered all the components. Next year or next century, they’ll come up with a new element that they discovered in a mother’s milk of which children have been deprived all these years. And even the best formula you have to know is inferior to Hakadosh Baruch Hu’s formula. He is the best Physician, and He knew how to mix the proper ingredients in the best manner.

And the second thing of which they deprive their children is the feeling of being held close to the mother. And that is not only a physical thing; it deprives the child of a certain security, a certain quality that only this loving embrace can impart. When a mother holds a child close to her breast, she is giving him more than physical nourishment. It’s a very important element. And that poor little baby wants to cuddle up to somebody; he cuddles up to a piece of plastic. And it’s cheating him.

Now they take little monkeys away from their mothers; they experiment. And they feed them on bottles. And they discovered that they’re not as secure. They don’t grow up to be proud and confident monkeys as they should become. And they discovered, if they’ll leave a bundle of rags in the cage, the little baby monkey goes up to the bundle and cuddles up close to it. He’s looking for a mother’s embrace. It’s natural. And it’s a need of humanity. They must have that. It’s part of their food and nourishment. And that’s why the child is being deprived.

December 1977

Rav Avigdor Miller on the Necessity of Nursing

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Q:

If nursing a baby is included in the great gifts of Hashem in this world, as you said earlier, why is it that so many people today neglect the privilege of nursing their babies?

A:

Mostly it’s because of yielding to the environment. Monkey sees, monkey does. That’s the truth in most cases.

However, some feel it’s an inconvenience. They can’t run around every day in the department stores because they have to be on time to feed the baby. And some have other reasons. Most of them, not valid.

However, today it’s realized that two big errors are being committed. One error is, the child is being deprived of what he needs — he’s not getting the exact nourishment that’s made to order for him. If you feed the child a formula, even the best formula, it doesn’t fully make up for mother’s milk. Because no matter how smart the doctors are, they have not yet discovered all the components. Next year or next century, they’ll come up with a new element that they discovered in a mother’s milk of which children have been deprived all these years. And even the best formula you have to know is inferior to Hakadosh Baruch Hu’s formula. He is the best Physician, and He knew how to mix the proper ingredients in the best manner.

And the second thing of which they deprive their children is the feeling of being held close to the mother. And that is not only a physical thing; it deprives the child of a certain security, a certain quality that only this loving embrace can impart. When a mother holds a child close to her breast, she is giving him more than physical nourishment. It’s a very important element. And that poor little baby wants to cuddle up to somebody; he cuddles up to a piece of plastic. And it’s cheating him.

Now they take little monkeys away from their mothers; they experiment. And they feed them on bottles. And they discovered that they’re not as secure. They don’t grow up to be proud and confident monkeys as they should become. And they discovered, if they’ll leave a bundle of rags in the cage, the little baby monkey goes up to the bundle and cuddles up close to it. He’s looking for a mother’s embrace. It’s natural. And it’s a need of humanity. They must have that. It’s part of their food and nourishment. And that’s why the child is being deprived.

December 1977

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Q:

If nursing a baby is included in the great gifts of Hashem in this world, as you said earlier, why is it that so many people today neglect the privilege of nursing their babies?

A:

Mostly it’s because of yielding to the environment. Monkey sees, monkey does. That’s the truth in most cases.

However, some feel it’s an inconvenience. They can’t run around every day in the department stores because they have to be on time to feed the baby. And some have other reasons. Most of them, not valid.

However, today it’s realized that two big errors are being committed. One error is, the child is being deprived of what he needs — he’s not getting the exact nourishment that’s made to order for him. If you feed the child a formula, even the best formula, it doesn’t fully make up for mother’s milk. Because no matter how smart the doctors are, they have not yet discovered all the components. Next year or next century, they’ll come up with a new element that they discovered in a mother’s milk of which children have been deprived all these years. And even the best formula you have to know is inferior to Hakadosh Baruch Hu’s formula. He is the best Physician, and He knew how to mix the proper ingredients in the best manner.

And the second thing of which they deprive their children is the feeling of being held close to the mother. And that is not only a physical thing; it deprives the child of a certain security, a certain quality that only this loving embrace can impart. When a mother holds a child close to her breast, she is giving him more than physical nourishment. It’s a very important element. And that poor little baby wants to cuddle up to somebody; he cuddles up to a piece of plastic. And it’s cheating him.

Now they take little monkeys away from their mothers; they experiment. And they feed them on bottles. And they discovered that they’re not as secure. They don’t grow up to be proud and confident monkeys as they should become. And they discovered, if they’ll leave a bundle of rags in the cage, the little baby monkey goes up to the bundle and cuddles up close to it. He’s looking for a mother’s embrace. It’s natural. And it’s a need of humanity. They must have that. It’s part of their food and nourishment. And that’s why the child is being deprived.

December 1977

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Q:

If nursing a baby is included in the great gifts of Hashem in this world, as you said earlier, why is it that so many people today neglect the privilege of nursing their babies?

A:

Mostly it’s because of yielding to the environment. Monkey sees, monkey does. That’s the truth in most cases.

However, some feel it’s an inconvenience. They can’t run around every day in the department stores because they have to be on time to feed the baby. And some have other reasons. Most of them, not valid.

However, today it’s realized that two big errors are being committed. One error is, the child is being deprived of what he needs — he’s not getting the exact nourishment that’s made to order for him. If you feed the child a formula, even the best formula, it doesn’t fully make up for mother’s milk. Because no matter how smart the doctors are, they have not yet discovered all the components. Next year or next century, they’ll come up with a new element that they discovered in a mother’s milk of which children have been deprived all these years. And even the best formula you have to know is inferior to Hakadosh Baruch Hu’s formula. He is the best Physician, and He knew how to mix the proper ingredients in the best manner.

And the second thing of which they deprive their children is the feeling of being held close to the mother. And that is not only a physical thing; it deprives the child of a certain security, a certain quality that only this loving embrace can impart. When a mother holds a child close to her breast, she is giving him more than physical nourishment. It’s a very important element. And that poor little baby wants to cuddle up to somebody; he cuddles up to a piece of plastic. And it’s cheating him.

Now they take little monkeys away from their mothers; they experiment. And they feed them on bottles. And they discovered that they’re not as secure. They don’t grow up to be proud and confident monkeys as they should become. And they discovered, if they’ll leave a bundle of rags in the cage, the little baby monkey goes up to the bundle and cuddles up close to it. He’s looking for a mother’s embrace. It’s natural. And it’s a need of humanity. They must have that. It’s part of their food and nourishment. And that’s why the child is being deprived.

December 1977

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