Thursday, August 26, 2010

Ah goodie, you say. More on breastfeeding.

I know, I'm an annoying, one track mind, "crazy Mom's club", breastfeeding crusader. Don't like it, don't read, but I hope you do.

My great grandma Alice was the epitome of motherhood. When I asked my grandmother if Grandma Alice breastfed them she replied: "Grandma was very active in the community and back then breastfeeding was unfashionable and was seen as something only poor people did." To me, that kind of tells you something about how we got where we are now in terms of attitudes toward breastfeeding. I truly believe that the practice of tenting a nursing child was originally developed to accommodate that sentiment, and is now upheld due to our lack of understanding of its origination and misinterpretation of human decency.

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