Carol N. Simontacchi

彼女は事実を言っただけなのかもしれないけど、初っ端からムッとさせられた事がある。身体に悪いから全く飲​ませるな、と一蹴してる人工乳のこと。
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それを飲んでなかったら今の私はここに居ないんですけどね。私に乳児時代に死んだ方が良かったと言うのか。

Thank you very much for making me feel like a loser as a baby. Beause I was raised with formula just to avoid malnutrition, now I am mentally retarded person ?... NOT!… (altro)

You know, this book isn’t at all what I was expecting…I rather got the idea in my head that this was another book like Fast Food Nation, and to some extent it was. This book was really about feeding yourself (as a potential parent) and your children the best foods and discussing the damage done by improper eating on unborn children and then on what we feed our infants and children as they grow up. This book succeeded where none has before in making me feel like the worse parent ever for not breastfeeding any of my children and for feeding them both formula and baby foods (I did make some of my own of those, but I also liberally used jars of Gerber)…I also have fed my kids lunchables, Kraft Mac & Cheese, and all the other myriad of foods that this book says are liable to impair my children’s brain development. According to Simontacchi, I have, without even really trying, set my kids up for emotional problems as kids and teens and for other larger problems as they grow into adulthood…and none of them can be corrected at this point. This book was a real eye opener in that regard, I see where it is coming from, but at the same time, this book puts a foul taste in my mouth because it smacks of that same “woman as a potential womb” at all times until she is no longer able to conceive children, and that combined with the four or five chapter long constant trouncing of my choices for food for my children…I came out of the feeling like the scum of the earth as a parent.

There was a lot of good info in the book, so I am glad that I read it and I would recommend it, especially to those women (and men) who are actively trying to have children. The advice, I feel, is solid…I just don’t enjoy feeling like I’ve done nothing but mess up royally and there is very little I can do to “fix it.” It was a little depressing, especially given that some of the NEVER eat foods are foods my mom grew up feeding me. There were no lunchables when I was a kid, but my mom loathed cooking and I grew up on boxed food like Hamburger Helper, Mac & Cheese, and any other box type meal that needed minimal things added to make a meal. I can see some of my own “problems” in the book and see that diet as a child, teen and early adult contributed to it. At this point, all I can do is take the message to heart and work to make the rest of my kids childhood more nutritional.… (altro)