I found the Grantly Dick Read quote on p. 197 of the 1953 edition of his Child birth Without Fear that I have. While I was browsing through his chapter [14] on breastfeeding I noticed he divided women into two groups: "1. Those who wish to breast-feed and cannot. 2. Those who do not wish to... and do not." He lists reasons for the cannot group- severe illness of the mother, malformed breasts, babies who are unable to suck. Also, economic reasons- babies artificially fed in the day by strangers, breastfed at night & early morning by mother who may find this difficult to do [due to uncomfortable breast in the day or discomfort of expressing milk.] And, having no milk. He goes on to say that some "have the absence of desire to suckle the infant. Women feed their babies with their minds through their breasts. The majority of this group [no milk] suffer from psychopathic inhibition, not physical or hormonal dysfunction. " And, "The fact that there are women and babies who cannot do it must be accepted, but in spite of all contraindication, only 4 or 5 per cent of healthy women are physically unable to feed their babies at the breast." Mardrey Swenson [log in to unmask]