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When breast isn't best

A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed.

Here is the latest update from a previously unshelled trench in the sex and gender war: the British branch of the oldest international breastfeeding support organisation is fighting the majority of its volunteer trustees on its Council of Directors. When I said the subject of the study was male, and that the findings were not credible (the data and observations presented in it were bizarre to anyone who understands the physiology of breastfeeding), I was told that “any human milk feeding” should be celebrated — and what good news it was that this person had found help to do so. He joined a group for breastfeeding mothers who needed help to make sufficient milk, and solicited advice on production, simulating pregnancy and birth, and discussed how he might “borrow” a baby to breastfeed (apparently his “dream scenario”).

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