Nisha,
I have found that many longtime macrobiotic practitioners, including women who got involved in macrobiotics either before, during, or after immediately after pregnancy, have not yet accessed the Internet.
So it seems that the feedback that you seek in this environment might come primarily from second-hand sources.
While surfing for macrobiotic sources on breastfeeding, I found another thread here at Cybermacro where we had a similar conversation and Elizabeth Sunderland who got involved in macrobiotics a year or two before having her first baby.
I recommend you exchange e-mail with her as she doesn't appear to come to this forum often and may be missing out on your and other new mom's queries.
Other longtime macrobiotic moms that you might be able to get macrobiotic breastfeeding information through the Internet through their husbands might be Cynthia Briscoe through David Briscoe at Macrobiotics America (
http://www.macroamerica.com/ ), and Julia Ferre' through Carl Ferre' at the George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation (
http://gomf.macrobiotic.net/ ).
When I was living in the Boston macrobiotic community back in the mid 1970s there were lots of women having children but there does not seem to be that kind of community happening (at least in the continental United States).
There is a community of long time macros in Alaska called Ionia, Inc (
http://www.ionia.org/index.html ) that has many children, and you might contact them as well.
Please don't limit your looking for macrobiotic information to these forums.
What part of the world are you located in?
You might be able to find local people for macrobiotic support for your locale from the nternational Macrobiotic Directory
$12.00 ([$10.00 plus $2.00 s&h], (year 2003) 1050 40th Street, Oakland, CA 94608. 510-601-1763, fax: 510-652-0298, e-mail: Robert Mattson
intermac@earthlink.net , Useful names, addresses, and telephone numbers of macrobiotic people, mb restaurants, and mb food suppliers (including food stores and related businesses) from around the world.
Do you have
[Michio Kushi's Macrobiotic Pregnancy and Care of the Newborn which is out of print but available from Bookfinder (
http://www.bookfinder.com/ ),
Macrobiotic Pregnancy by Alice Feinberg, or
Raising Healthy Kids:A Wholistic Approach to the Physical & Psychological Care of Your Childby Michio Kushi and Aveline Kushi with Edward Esko, Wendy Esko, and Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D. (
http://gomf.macrobiotic.net/Books_Family.htm )?
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine
[quote=nisha]Bruce,
I wish it was that easy.
I am still a full-time breastfeeding mom. My daughter is a joyful, loving and kind little girl. She is simply going through a stage of testing limits and experimenting with flavors. Our dinner table interaction is still fun, I am just trying to find foods that she will enjoy and that will be of benefit to her health. I guess I was also hoping to hear how other parents led their little ones along.