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Karleen,

In my files somewhere there is a copy of a nursing mothers' group magazine
from Norway or Sweden which featured an article about a mother and
grandmother both nursing the mother's baby.  This was presented as something
the g-mom began to do as a loving gesture and because it felt right to both
of them.  The grandmother could nurse when she was caring for the baby, and
she did this often enough that she had relactated, so the baby got milk as
well as comfort when she nursed.  The grandmother was not an "old" lady (I
say this from my perspective of 57 years).  The mother was twenties-ish and
the g-mother fiftyish.

I just assume that the breast is a functional organ that can make milk when
it gets the right stimulation.  We don't see this in Western cultures (which
I define by history, not location, so Oz is included) because Western women
don't normally offer their "dry" breast to babies to comfort them.  Maybe
this is an idea worth pursuing.  I mean, why would a person give a baby a
cold, dinky little binky (dummy) for comfort when she could give her warm
breast.  I'll tuck this idea away in my "grandmother hope chest."

Chris Mulford

Did young women in Australia ever have hope chests?  That's where you store
the lovely fine needlework---household linens and lingerie---that you and
your female relatives sew while you are waiting for Mr. Right to come along.
It's not something the girls in the US do any more!

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