New Yorker article on breast milk

Unique and interesting take on the history and politics of wet-nursing and pumping breastmilk. Lengthy, but informative. The article asserts (I think) that breast is good, but *at* breast is best.

I've often thought that formula isn't necessarily a bad thing. It can be mighty helpful, and even on occasion, life-saving. But things are such that formula is way over-used, completely beyond its helpfulness. The author speaks of non-breast-feeding of mother's milk the same way.

And just to be crystal clear - I respect every individual mother's choices: formula, breast or both; pump and bottle! Formula is inferior to breastmilk, yet helpful on occasion. Could it be argued that pumping is helpful on occasion, yet inferior to mother-baby togetherness?

My favorite line: When did “women’s rights” turn into “the right to work”?

Are them fight'n words for any of you? :)

Read the whole thing here.

~s~

p.s. still polishing that essay