I've been reading books about American/English/Australian female
prisoners-of-war during World War II -- got the books out of the library for
a paper my daughter was writing, but started reading the books myself.  Most
are diaries.  In the one I'm reading now, the woman talks about being taken
prisoner along with her 2 year old son, along with a number of other women
with children under 5.  And they were not breastfeeding -- she goes on and
on about "life and health" in a tin -- meaning the powdered milk, and how
the children suffer so from not having milk.  This was in Borneo, in 1942.
Seems like it shouldn't have been *that long* since women routinely
breastfed, and that at least some of the them would have thought about
trying it, especially so far from home under such difficult circumstances
(before the imprisonment).  Very depressing, for lots of reasons.

Kathy Dettwyler, whose two mustangs fillies are still nursing at 1 year of
age, even though most horses are forcibly "weaned" by separation from their
mothers at 6 months of age!  The *babies* are only a few inches shorter than
their mothers.