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The Return to Breast Feeding
Author(s) -
Lawson James S.,
Mays Carol A.,
Oliver Timothy I.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1978.tb131496.x
Subject(s) - breast feeding , period (music) , foundation (evidence) , demography , medicine , psychology , pediatrics , history , sociology , art , aesthetics , archaeology
Mothers in the northern Sydney suburbs have rediscovered breast feeding. The breast feeding rate of infants at six months of age increased from 12% to 48% during the period between 1972 and 1977. It is hoped that this return to the traditional and natural practice of breast feeding, and family participation at the birth, will continue and help provide a foundation for a more emotionally secure and resilient society.