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Here's a good article about why breast feeding is hard. Even in so-called primitive societies, the grandmother to mother teaching, and wider female social netwo
by rabboRubble 8y ago
Here's a good article about why breast feeding is hard. Even in so-called primitive societies, the grandmother to mother teaching, and wider female social network to mother teaching is vital. The society studied in the article, the mother-to-be got a maternity leave of sorts in order to learn what to do and how to do it.
Of course the US does not want to support a global breast feeding initiative. One, don't want to undermine the baby formula industry. Two, can't be prioritizing stay at home time by new mothers with grandma because that might mean legislating paid maternity leave. Can't be having aaaaaany focus on those things, the shareholders and mom & pop businesses would suffer!
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/26/534021439/secrets-of-breast-feeding-from-global-moms-in-the-know https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/26/5340214...