The vast majority of Robert Heinlein's ( the SF Grand Master) heroines 
breastfed.
In A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young (childrens' poetry from the author 
of Winne-the-Poo), One of the illustrations for the poem about the sixpence 
and the rabbit has a breastfeeding flower seller. She's holding a baby and you 
have to look closely but she's definitly breastfeeding.

As far as women's conversations, there are a lot of sad ones and the price 
you pay for being a modern western woman seems to be a disconnection from 
many aspects of essential femininity. Well, we of the west beleive you can 
have it all so we just have to help women see this as part of the package.

Just for sharing. My mother didn't breastfeed us because she was bullied out 
of it as it wasn't in fashion and she felt the loss all her life. She was an artist 
and I was brought up with classic paintings of women breastfeeding. I 
remember, as a child, thinking that it made perfect sense to me to breastfeed, 
what else were breasts for? So, with no experience and very little information 
other than what I gleaned from Reubens and Renoir, I nursed my first baby. It 
made sense for my nipples to be a little sore and to be engorged and so I just 
plowed on happily and the problems went away. We nursed happily for three 
years. After that I discovered LLL and got more info and trained as an ante-
natal teacher and BFC.

I've breastfed all of my children, encountered and overcome all sorts of 
hassles and now my daughter and my daughter in law fed their babies for two 
years. I am so blessed and I only wish that every single Mom in the world 
could know the joy and empowerment I experienced in my childbearing years.

What we do for women can't be quantified, perhaps not even qualified. 
Top marks to all of you!

Yael Edelstein
ICEC BFC
Israel

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