In a message dated 09/18/2000 9:18:38 PM Central Daylight Time, caioross@z... writes:
<< > I just wanted to add that I wasn't breast-fed by my mother in the late 60's because it was seen as something only poor women needed to do. A middle-class woman SHOULDN'T have to breast feed, because she could afford formula. A sad idea. (And I may have paid for it too, I had lots of upper resperitory infections as a child.) >
I fully agree! BTW, just ask an orthodontist what causes most of the problems their patients have, and they'll answer: short or no breast feeding! >>
Well, fortunately, my teeth are straight, in spite of the fact that I was bottle-fed. But then again, Mom spent the early 50s in the sanitorium for TB and was told not to breast feed....
Christine Thomas, Mezzo Soprano Wauwatosa, WI
"Humility is the acceptance of the possibility that someone else can teach you something else you do not know already, especially about yourself. Conversely, pride and arrogance close the door of the mind." -- Arthur Deikman, The Observing Self
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