Denhez, Louise writes:

>>Chinese women do not offer the breast before the milk comes in (at least,
>>that is what the new immigrants told a colleague of mine)
>>Another friend of mine, who had worked in refugee camps in Thailand also
>>told me that Vietnamese and Cambodian (sp?) women considered colostrum as
>>bad, and had the baby wet nursed until the milk came in.

>
>The trouble with such reports is that it is so general.  Which Chinese
women?  Which ethnic group?  Everybody in that ethnic group?  Or is there
cultural variation by social class, educational level, age?
>
>If you are interested in the cross-cultural (anthropological) study of
breastfeeding, several good books to start with are:
>
>Infant Care and Feeding in the South Pacific, edited by Leslie Marshall, 1985.
>
>Breastfeeding, Child Health, and Child Spacing: Cross-Cultural
Perspectives, edited by Valerie Hull and Mayling Simpson, 1985.
>
>The Infant Feeding Triad, by Barry Popkin and others, 198?.
>
>Only Mothers Know, by Dana Raphael, 1985 (kind of weird).
>
>And of course lots of journal articles.
>
>It's a fascinating topic!
>
>
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