Cathy, your myth:
"8) BFing is fine for healthy, middle-class, married women who don't have to
go out to work, but not for young women,"
caught my eye, because I have been reading Janet Golden's History of Wet Nursing
In America.  In her discussion of the change in the nature of the wet nursing
relationsip between the employer and wet nurse during the late 18th and early
19th century she details this in parallel with the changes in class relations.
In the 19th century, wet nurses were drawn from the  urban poor, often young,
single, immigrant mothers.  Their middle class employers were thought to be less
hardy, of a more delicate temperament and to therefore find breastfeeding
difficult.

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN , near Oldham, UK

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