>'they said that the
>mother had "eliminated hard to measure breastfeeding."
>
>This may be me, or me being British, but I don't know what this means...is
>it a typo or an expression I don't know? Please explain, Naomi - it sounds
>a really interesting story.
"hard to measure", I'm not sure that's the exact phrase but
it was close. When one is trying to lose weight, one often
measures carefully all the food one eats in order to
know just how many of which types of calories one is
consuming. Exact quantities of breast milk are hard to measure
so the mother stopped breastfeeding her baby! Didn't stop her from
feeding her pizza and burgers that she could measure and should't
have been giving her ...
The comment about breastfeeding
was incidental to the main story, so it didn't clarify whether
one of her doctors or nutritionists recommended that she stop bf
or if the mother came up with that one herself.
 Naomi Bar-Yam

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