Greetings all,

I found a reference to breastfeeding in another movie, cross nursing in
PAINT YOUR WAGON.

In the story, a man with two wives is tempted to sell the second, who is
headstrong and quarrels with his first wife.

When the decision is made to sell Elizabeth, and the crowd moves outdoors
for the bidding, wife #1, (who is not for sale because she has a baby)
hands Elizabeth the baby, which Elizabeth proceeds to nurse.  Her husband
previously related that Elizabeth's own baby died two weeks earlier.

When a drunken Rumson sees the nursing mother, he is driven to bid on her.
He staggers from man to man through the crowd, exclaiming about the "woman
with the baby pressed to the breast!"  He impulsively doubles the latest
bid to $800, passes out drunk, and ends up owning Elizabeth.

I take this as a tribute to the beauty of breastfeeding.  I'm sure Rumson
would express this differently.

Jeanne Badman, IBCLC
St. Paul, MN
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