I have just read an article which I have found rather interesting but a bit scaring at the same time. The article said about one historical period in breastfeeding. It is nowadays when breastfeeding is known to be popular and common for people. And I thought that it was always the main food for small babies. But it appeared that it was not like this always. It is said that in the middle ages of last centuries people stop use breastfeeding for nursing their babies.
At those times breastfeeding was almost lost in the life of people in the USA. What more striking is, there were even three main obstacles for successful breastfeeding: doctors, social pressures and hospitals. As a result most of moms have no been breastfeeding their children at all. And only in 1956, when Mary Ann Kerwin and Mary White organized an organization LLLI, the breastfeeding started getting popularity again with the help of this organization. It helped breastfeeding mothers, taught them and encouraged.
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