Breastfeeding Week: Dated wisdom, lactation stigma still assail mothers
“Being a doctor, I thought I had good knowledge of lactation and breastfeeding already,” Elsa John, an anaesthetist and a first-time mother in Vellore, told this author. “But nothing prepared me for the doubts that came in the initial days when I had to do it.” She recalled that a nurse pinched her nipples hard … Read more