In fact,
human infants naturally show a strong preference for individuals who help rather than hinder others.
Not exact matches
According to the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services Office on Women's Health, among the benefits of breastfeeding are the nutrients and antibodies that come
naturally in breast milk, the ease of breast milk on an
infant's digestive system and the hormones in breast milk that protect babies from illness.
Tragically, these culturally based practices led to the deaths of possibly as many as 600 thousand
infants from SIDS, in part because our society promoted a kind of premature deep, uninterrupted sleep, in sensory - deprived (solitary) environments for which the
naturally vulnerable and neurologically immature
human infant was not and is not, biologically prepared.
Although with «cultural breastfeeding» there may be no effects on a mother's fertility whatsoever, when a mother and
infant participate in the
human biological norm or «ecological breastfeeding,» women remain in lactational amenorrhea (absence of periods due to unrestricted breastfeeding and constant proximity) and babies are spaced
naturally.
10 There is no animal model of SIDS and it has never been observed to occur
naturally in any species other than
humans.2 While the standardization of a SIDS diagnosis has been and continues to be elusive and / or inconsistent, it is most often applied to situations in which an otherwise healthy
infant between the ages of 8 - 16 weeks, especially, but up to 12 months, dies suddenly and unexpectedly presumably during its sleep and upon postmortem examination no apparent internal causal factor (s) explaining the death can be identified.11, 12
Candida albicans is a yeastlike fungus
naturally found in small amounts in
human digestive tracts, but its overgrowth in warm, moist environments causes burning, itching symptoms, thrush (rashes in the throat or mouth) in
infants and those with weakened immune systems, and sexually transmittable genital yeast infections in men and women.
Infants are
naturally attuned to other
humans, as shown in the photo above of a baby.