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False Modesty. Despite its members' zeal, the league does not proselyte in the usual sense. It offers advice and services only to women who seek them. For the most part, these are women who want to breast-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...
...physiological responses in coitus and lactation are closely allied, say the Newtons: "Uterine contractions occur both during suckling and during sexual excitement. Nipple erection occurs during both. Breast stimulation alone can induce orgasm in some women. Nursing mothers not only report sexual stimulation from suckling but also, as a group, are more interested in as rapid a return to active intercourse with their husbands as possible...
...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 of breast cancer is far lower among women who have nursed their babies than among those who have relied on the bottle. And again, the nursing mother enjoys satisfactions denied a woman who has to mix and fix formulas...
More Flow. The inconveniences of 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...
...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 to do it. La Leche mothers concede that...