Here are some of the points he brought up at the Luncheon session on July 4. We all know that breastfeeding is wonderful. In the United States and Canada, bottle-feeding is the norm. We are a bottle-feeding culture. We begin teaching our children at a young age.
Dolls come with baby bottles.
Most children's books show babies with bottles. The idea is perpetuated that animals breastfeed and humans do not. Dr. Newman showed slides of Canadian children raised in families where breastfeeding is the norm. Little boys and girls nursed their dolls. An Australian aboriginal child was shown wearing a strap with clay breasts to breastfeed her doll.