My mother-in-law breastfed four of her five sons for a year each.  The
one she weaned at a month she did so on the advice of her Dr. (in the
mid 1940's) because the Dr. told her that her worrying about her husband
who was away at WWII caused her milk to dry up and her baby would
starve.  To this day, my MIL is convinced that NOT breatfeeding that son
is why he is the only of the five boys who is gay.

Needless to say, she is very supportive of breastfeeding mothers.  I
think she considers my four year old son's occasional nursing a good
sign.

Jake

Penny wrote:
> My husband was not breastfed (in 1963) because his father didn't want his
> mother's breasts to get saggy.  Nine years later they divorced anyway,
> and now my dh is convinced that being deprived of his mother's milk is
> the cause of just about everything wrong in his life, from colds and
> allergies to ADD to not being able to finish his dissertation in a timely
> manner.  (Hey, if breastfeeding can be blamed for just about everything
> under the sun, a little turnabout's fair play!)

--
Jake Marcus-Cipolla, retired lawyer, student lactation
consultant, part-time media consultant (Marcus Media Consulting),
stay-at-home mom to Luca Antonio (7/26/94) and Nicholas Liam (5/1/97),
LLL Leader.

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