After reading the interesting post from Rachel on infant feeding history in  
Iceland and Norway, along with a great talk I heard yesterday at a conference 
by  Anne Merewood on the history of infant formula, I have a couple of 
pondering  questions.
Why do women not want to breastfeed their children?  Now, I am talking  about 
the past when I asked this question not the modern day mother.   According to 
history, women having been trying to give their babies other food  and drink 
besides breast milk long before any formula companies were  developed.  
Certainly these companies took an advantage of a trend they  observed and then 
pushed it even more.  But why did women look to not give  their own milk, or any 
human milk to their babies when it is readily there and  so nurturing?
Maybe someone with an anthropology background or sociology may help me  
understand this.
I wonder if the human, who thinks about their world and questions it verses  
just flowing with instinctual traits, messes us up?
Ann Perry, RN IBCLC
Boston, MA

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