South American autors often mention breastfeeding ...

2007-02-05T05:26:00.000-06:00

South American autors often mention breastfeeding in a very positive light and as something completely natural too.
One of my favorite books is quite famous - "The house of the spirits" by Isabel Allende (there is a film based on the story, but no breastfeeding there).In the book Clara gives birth to twins (c-section on the kitchen table!) and to the horror of her familiy nurses both whenever they want, like little monkeys hanging on her breasts. She never accepts the idea to give them condensed milk, diluted with rice water (the fashion advice in her time), saying simply that if nature intended that babies be fed this mixture, it would be in the mother's breasts.
The other one is the novel "Like hot water for chocolate" by Laura Esquivel.Adoptive breastfeeding and induced lactation are mentioned there - a young virgin sister cares for the newborn of the other, offering the baby breast and sweet tees and eventually begins producing milk and fully nursing the little girl.
Another book I read recently is a Malaysian story - The Rice mother by Rani Manicka, the story is at the time of WW2.The main character mentiones nursing on her mother's breasts for full 8 years and living only on sweet mamma milk and sweet mango.Later in the story her own daughter is nursed by a friend - it begins right after the birth due to the illness of the mother and to her astonishment and blinding jealousy she discovers her daughter still nursing secretly on her friend's breast by the time the little girl is 2 years old.

Don't forget Susan Elizabeth Phillips. She manage...

2007-01-31T10:14:00.000-06:00

Don't forget Susan Elizabeth Phillips. She manages to at least mention breastfeeding in each of her romance novels. Susan used to be either the Area Leader Administrator or Area conference Administrator I think it was the former)for LLL in the eastern US. She started writing the bookd with a neighbor after they said to each other that they bet they could write a romance novel as god as the ones they were reading. The neighbor dropped out, but Susan kept writing. I remember her at meetings with Judy Good when I was a Regional Administrator of Leaders many years ago.

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South American autors often mention breastfeeding ...

Don't forget Susan Elizabeth Phillips. She manage...