women in the workplace

Why Fewer Babies are Breast Fed

Sun, 01/18/2009 - 20:45
Submitted by Betty Dodson

Baby Food by Jill Lepore demonstrates that we are a nation filled with sexual ignorance and bigotry. This piece on breast feeding and the difficulty new mothers face nursing their children in public, pumping their breast milk at the office, and the failure of the Family & Medical Leave Act to support working women's role as mother is an eye opener.  We produce the most porn and have sex on the brain 24/7, but expose one female nipple and Americans fall apart. Who are these people?

Mother told me I was too weak to suckle as a premature baby. She got a breast pump and fed me with an eye dropper until I grew stronger. She actually used a Wet Nurse for her first baby. By the time she had her last two; she was healthier and made sure her babies got their "titty dinners."