Utilitarian Boobs

[BigV]

Bonus! Dinner *and* a show.

[BigV]

It's sooo good and good for you. And your baby Now that's utility!

Study: Breast-Feeding Decreases Cancer Risk

The new findings are particularly relevant to women who give birth after age 25 and eventually have three or more children. These women have double the risk of the aggressive and hard-to-treat hormone-negative breast cancers.

"This two-fold increased risk went away when we looked only at women who breast-fed," Ursin says. "They were no longer at increased risk of breast cancer."

The mechanism is unclear. Some experts think it's because a woman is less likely to ovulate while she's breast-feeding. The fewer times a woman ovulates, the lower her risk of breast cancer.

Whatever the reason, the bottom line is clear: Breast-feeding offers broad protection against both major types of breast cancer in women of all ages.

Like I said, Bonus!

[HungLikeJesus]

Put fresh batteries in your camera. There's going to be a show this weekend.

An Internet chat room posting written by a South Dakota mother about her breastfeeding experience at Elitch Gardens has motivated several Colorado mothers to plan a "nurse-in" Saturday morning at the park.

[kerosene]

I remember the breastfeeding days. I think LJ or Jinx said something about the "let down" effect. That, alone was frustrating, but add a hungry baby to the mix, and it could make things fairly difficult, to say the least. Has anyone ever tried feeding a baby in an airplane bathroom? There's barely enough room to piss in those. Plus, people stand in line to use them for what they are intended, so why use that space, when there is a perfectly good seat.

Breastfeeding a baby is never something a woman should be ashamed of and the attitude some people have seems to be there to cause shame.

Yes, I was fortunate enough to have worked at a corporation that had a lactation room and provided a breast pump. I also had a job in which I could take a break every 2 hours to pump. I would have rather had some extra maternity leave so I could have been with my son to breastfeed, but such is life. Some people don't get maternity leave.

I don't really have a point, I guess. Just that breastfeeding == good. Good is not bad and shouldn't be construed that way.

I like my breasts.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by case

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I like my breasts.

Sharing's nice!

[jinx]

Breast Milk Sugars Give Infants a Protective Coat

A large part of human milk cannot be digested by babies and seems to have a purpose quite different from infant nutrition — that of influencing the composition of the bacteria in the infant’s gut...

Many toxic bacteria and viruses bind to human cells by docking with the surface sugars. But they will bind to the complex sugars in milk instead...

let us see the genius of the strategy — mothers are recruiting another life-form to baby-sit their baby...

Such findings have made the three researchers keenly aware that every component of milk probably has a special role. “It’s all there for a purpose, though we’re still figuring out what that purpose is,” Dr. Mills said. “So for God’s sake, please breast-feed.”

[Flint]

So... what I might conclude is...

:::gears turning:::

:::thought slowly forming:::

That... the functions of our body, that millions of years of evolution have carefully fine-tuned... have lead to a situation where there are certain things that we SHOULD do, that would be... GOOD for us? One might say, "healthy" decisions?

:::SCOFF::: That's not what TV commercials tell me, so that can't be true.

[Spexxvet]

Waitress (to Jordan): I haven’t seen you in a while.
Elliot (to waitress): Oh, she just had a baby.
Waitress: Well then, how can you be drinking? Aren’t you breast-feeding?
Jordan: I haven’t decided. Were you breast-fed?
Waitress: Of course I was.
Jordan: That is so interesting. ‘Cuz you’re a slaggy buttinski who ended up becoming a waitress for a living. Maybe breast feeding isn’t the answer…