Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold water for half an hour and then salting it. In some urban areas, shopping at least is no longer difficult. Nearly 500 food companies produce more than 2,500 supermarket-stocked items that have been approved as kosher by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations-including milk substitutes made from soybeans that can be used with meat dishes. Says Mrs. Rachel Weiner, 29, of Chicago: "With all the substitute products today, there's nothing to keeping a kosher house...
...feed because they think it is natural, and for them the league has published a 166-page book, The 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...
Some of the conveniences of breast feeding are obvious. The milk is always at the right temperature, so there is no problem of heating bottles and worrying when they cool off. It is available at any hour of the day or night. It is always sterile-if there are stray germs around the nipples, they are almost certainly the ones to which the mother and therefore the baby already have antibodies...
...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 are much more eager to put a bottle in the baby's mouth to keep it quiet than to trundle the infant back...
...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...