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21 " Women had worked at heavy jobs for centuries alongside men.21 They were now barred from heavy, manual, wage-earning labour, only to carry out heavy, physical, unpaid work at home. "
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22 " Feeding cereals and solid foods early is not just a waste of time, money and effort, it does harm. "
23 " Babies get more infections, more allergies and are more likely to die if they get complementary foods before six months.57 "
24 " The zeal with which Victorian reformers worked to ‘protect’ women from such jobs as mining was more a concern for the effect of sexual opportunity on their souls, than for the effect of heavy work on their health. "
25 " Between 1846 and 1876 about one in 200 women died within a month of giving birth.2 "
26 " Anthropologist Kathy Dettwyler has considered a range of physiological and other signs and judges that between two and a half and seven years of breastfeeding is probably the ‘natural’ period for the human primate.61 "
27 " In western culture colostrum has, until recently, been viewed with indifference. The focus has often been on ‘waiting for the milk to come in’ as though colostrum is not milk. "
28 " Waiting for two minutes, or until the cord has stopped pulsating, before clamping, enables blood transfer from the placenta to the baby. This will make a big difference to a child’s long-term iron stores and is especially important for babies born to mothers with low iron themselves.66 "
29 " In rich countries, there has been a trend to harvest cord-blood for stem-cells. Harvesting 100mls of blood from a newborn is equivalent to taking over a litre (2.5 pints) from an adult.67 Such theft can cause immediate problems and also jeopardise his long-term nutrition and health. "
30 " I felt my health giving way, and being in a weak condition, I became an easy prey to sexual intercourse, and thus once more became a mother in fourteen months. "