Norma Ritter asked:

>Anybody know of other cultures (besides the Innuits and Scandanavians) who
>still do this?

I don't know about other cultures, but I know that my grandmother chewed
table food for her eleven children here is a hollow in WV seventy years ago.
 My mother didn't share that with me until just recently, and then with great
embarassment.  Her family was (how shall I say it?) not wealthy  :-), so
Mother always associated breastfeeding with poverty, and, being a
well-trained RN of the forties and fifties, made sure my sister and I got the
full benefits of Carnation and corn syrup.  Her comment to me, when she found
I planned to breastfeed my first child, was, "Why would you want to do that?"
 But, to her eternal credit, she never tried to change my mind or sabatoge
me.  Now, having listened to me extol the benefits for thirty years, she
says, "If I'd known all that, I would have breastfed you two."

Judy D in WV