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The Milk of Life

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Breastfeeding After World War Two

By the 19 fifties, only one in four american new borns were breast fed at all for any length of time. The medical profession was encouraging formula feeding. There's also an e ging culture of the sexualization of women's bodies,. And so you get the world war two pin up girls - rosalind russell and marylynd monroe. That has an effect on breast feeding in that breasts become sexual and less functional.

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