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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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The Science of Breast Feeding

At the time, nobody was buying them. Because it was still super expensive. And why would i bother? I can get evaporated milk at home. It really wasn't until the fifties when people started slowly switching from these ratio based, home made formulas that they were told to use by their doctors. They went through hundreds of different formulations to come up with exactly the nutrition that your baby needs. The american academy of pediatric set standards for, like, the vitamens and mineral levels and the formulas,. so that you could make sure that things were coming out right.

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