Bionica. Body Worx. Attunement. Integrative Medicine. Utero. Simianlac: The Closest Yet to Mother's Milk. No, This Time We Mean it: Really Really REALLY Close to Mother's Milk For some time now, breastfeeding advocates have noted that whenever formula companies release a new product, much of the marketing focuses on insinuating that this new recipe makes their variation closer than ever before to human milk, typically by featuring synthetic versions of various ingredients found naturally in mother's milk (i.e. the essential fatty acids DHA and ARA, vital for brain development, with particularly disastrous results in artificial form). Other concerns aside from attempts to replicate specific components of human milk include the protein content of the formula, based in cow's milk. These proteins are significantly different than those found in human milk, due to the fact that they are designed for a large ruminant, the offspring of which will be walking almost immediately after birth, in contrast to the needs of the human infant.
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Midwife Education Resources. EILEITHYIA : Greek Goddess of Childbirth | Mythology, w/ pictures | Roman Lucina. EILEITHYIA (or Ilithyia) was the goddess of childbirth and labour pains. According to some there were two Eileithyiai, one who furthered birth and one who protracted the labour. Her name means "she who comes to aid" or "relieve" from the Greek word elêluthyia.
Her Roman counterpart was Natio ("Birth") or Lucina ("Light bringer"). When Alkmene was in labour with Herakles, Hera sent Eileithyia to stay the birth and so kill mother and child. However, Alkmene's handmaiden Galinthias spied the goddess seated before the door with her arms and legs crossed, and cried "a son is born.
" The goddess leapt up in surprise, releasing her magical grip on the womb, allowing the child to be born. Eileithyia was depicted as a woman wielding a torch, representing the burning pains of childbirth, or with her arms raised in the air to bring the child to the light. Homer, Iliad 11. 270 ff (trans. Homer, Odyssey 19. 188 ff (trans. Hesiod, Theogony 921 ff (trans. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 13 (trans.
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