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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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