On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 18:48:11 -0800, Karen Querna <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

<snip>Instead found this interesting excerpt:
>reference to Oketani Manual Technique of Breast Treatment in this book:
>      1. on Page 90:
>      <snip> Oketani's method of
>weaning is extremely radical:71 she advises the mother to draw a face on
>each breast and to lift her blouse each time the child demands his due by
>saying: `All gone!' `Some babies are surprised, ..."
>

Yow, sounds something like Gussie's mom in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which
was very negative towards nursing the older baby/child.
Gussie's mother drew a "terrifying" face on her breast and then scared her
little son with it so he would never ask to nurse again.  He was described
as afterwards "shuddering" everytime he looked at his mother's chest.  Made
me want to cry.

-Claire

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