I get a kick out of that title, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding. This is the name of the book published by La Leche League, and it's the Bible of Breastfeeding. The Maxim for Mammilla. The Tome for Teats. What can I say? The title of the book makes me giggle. Whenever I tell Gwen that the title amuses me, she looks at me as if I've just called Canada the 51st state or let out a very large, wet belch. I just think there's something funny and awkward about the title. Not about breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is the bomb. It's dope. Breast milk is beyond science. We have yet to fully understand it, and we will certainly never reproduce its equal in a laboratory. It is a mystery, like quantum...
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