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First appeared in The Compleat Mother in the Fall '88 issue - Reprinted with permission
Without 2 A.M. mixing marathons the new mother will not appreciate the awesome toll her child is taking upon her. If she merely breast-feeds in bed, half-asleep, she will feel refreshed in the morning, and able to gallivant all day with her friends, child tucked into a hip carrier. Since teachers only get three months off, and executives get long lunches but few fun holidays, it would hardly be fair for all mothers to enjoy life while nobody else does.
If North American babies aren't routinely examined for formula-fed illnesses such as really runny poo and blasted barfing, how will the medical community prepare for far greater intestinal upsets, where water is putrid and antibodies are scarce, in the bottle-fed Third World?
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding |
Although it may increase bust size temporarily, breast-feeding is a real nuisance to table dancers (customers will complain of drips and squirts) and bank tellers. Every deposited Baby Bonus will cause a let-down. Members of Parliament will be the only working mothers to benefit since Question Period cameras will naturally focus on the honourable member mothers sneaking a suck instead of the nose-picking back-benchers.
It is well known that coitus is interrupted when baby calls. Often the act must be engaged in repeatedly in an evening instead of the liberation afforded the bottle-feeder; get it over with quick.
From the clerk at the grocery store who charges $0.49 for a tin of 1/4 banana, to the farmer in the field who will reap $20 for the pesticide-sprayed peas and carrots needed to fill 7,889,550 jars of strained veggies, to the flaky naturopaths you engage to explain the general malaise your baby has suffered from the day you introduced commercial baby food, many livelihoods depend on the absence of breast-feeding. Already the shareholders and company presidents are cross with declining sales and record low profits.
The Breastfeeding Book |
So Mary breast-fed Jesus because she was blessed, and maybe the light from her halo gave her extra strength but I mean we haven't even had a Royal Commission or Affirmative Action and here are all these Canadian girls thinking they can support their babies from their breasts without so much as a government grant? It's different with cows; you pump the tail and out squirts the milk. Well, so maybe a few earthy ones can breast-feed but buy the jars anyway, huh? Give it to your granny . . . .
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Last updated - April 5, 2024
