Word: laing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, which in ten years has sold 150,000 copies. Less common but more dramatic are the cases of babies who are allergic to cow's milk and all formulas but can not get human milk from their mothers. When such cases are reported, La Leche members volunteer their surplus milk. It is then frozen and shipped to the starveling. (The Junior League also runs a frozen-breast-milk service for babies in such emergencies...
...enthusiasm of La Leche mothers is now receiving increased scientific support. A husband-wife team of physician and psychologist, Dr. Michael Newton and Dr. Niles Newton of Chicago, point out in the New England Journal of Medicine that the survival of the species originally depended upon "the satisfactions gained from the two voluntary acts of reproduction-coitus and breast feeding. These had to be sufficiently pleasurable to ensure their frequent occurrence." There never has been any argument about the pleasure of coitus, but the satisfactions of lactation were submerged in the prudery and false modesty of the Edwardian...
Less Cancer. La Leche mothers and their handbook put less emphasis on such basic drives than on the welfare of mother and child. Medical research firmly supports their contention that a breast-fed baby is less liable than a bottle-fed baby to such distressing complaints as diarrhea, colic, diaper rash, allergies and infections-from the common cold to influenza and poliomyelitis. He also benefits emotionally from frequent fondling and being cradled in Mother's arms. The mother herself benefits because hormone changes associated with lactation speed contraction of the uterus after the stretching caused by childbirth. The incidence...
...breast feeding are just as obvious for the modern woman who wants to be active outside the home, at work or in her social life. She cannot rush home every time the baby needs to be nursed. Besides, most women nowadays are too embarrassed to nurse in public, although La Leche offers advice on how to do it modestly. If women overcome this hesitation, they still do not know how to start the milk flowing. Most obstetricians could not care less; their responsibility ends with the delivery. Most pediatricians have been inadequately trained. And nurses in lying-in wards...
...La Leche's scores of thousands of members, the routine is neither difficult nor unfamiliar. Their rule: let the baby suck to start the milk flow; the more it wants and sucks, the more plentiful the flow will be. There are exceptions, as there have been throughout history, when wet nurses have been in demand: some women simply cannot breastfeed. La Leche tries to reassure such women so that they will not feel guilty. There is no point in making a cult of breast feeding,* and La Leche advocates it only for those who both can and want...