Do you think Naso was breast fed as a baby?

[opebo]

I say no.

Were you?  Isn't breast feeding a rarity in the US?

[opebo]

No I honestly think it is a rarity, isn't it?  I've never known anyone who was breast fed, as far as I know.  Certainly no one in my family.  I can't even imagine my mother or any of our female relatives considering such a thing.

[opebo]

No I honestly think it is a rarity, isn't it?  I've never known anyone who was breast fed, as far as I know.  Certainly no one in my family.  I can't even imagine my mother or any of our female relatives considering such a thing.

Why is it a rarity?
I think the vast majorities of mothers breast feed.  I have several friends with babies... and they all breast feed.  My baby cousin was breastfed until about a year old.  My nephew was too.

I'd think it's much more rare to only formula feed a baby.  I figured most all moms breastfeed and supplement it with formula so they don't have to pump.

I think back in the heyday - say 1950s-1980 or so - it was very rare to breastfeed.  To be honest I simply cannot imagine my mother doing such a thing, nor anyone of that generation.

I suspect women thought it would 'ruin their breasts', and/or smacked of poverty not to buy the formulas, and/or simply found it disgusting or disturbing to be suckled.

[opebo]

To be honest I simply cannot imagine my mother doing such a thing, nor anyone of that generation.

your mother probably had a maid change you diaper

Well, she did have one at that time, I will admit (it was before she became to crazy to keep help).