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Kind of makes you think about the way toddlers seem to want to instinctively pick things up off the ground and put them in their mouths - and wheather we're doing them any favors by stopping them.

[concerned about politics]

Kind of makes you think about the way toddlers seem to want to instinctively pick things up off the ground and put them in their mouths - and wheather we're doing them any favors by stopping them.

Yep. "Sanitizing" their surroundings when young really prohibits their ability to fight off germs and viruses later.
We have small farm animals, and it's VERY important to get the colusterum mothers milk into their system within the first 1/2 hour. After that, they can't absorb the antiboties their mother has.

[concerned about politics]

PS....That's another important point. Breast feeding passess on antibodies already developed by the mother. People don't do much of that anymore.