World Breastfeeding Week: The Real Breastfeeding Story

The recent controversies generated by depictions of Attachment Parenting in the Western mdia and elsewhere have revealed a fairly astounding degree of misinformation about infant and child development. Most especially, the media's fetishist focus on "extreme breastfeeding" has revealed the tremendously wide chasm that exists between official medical recommendations about breastfeeding and the actual reality and perception of the practice on the ground.