Breastfeeding: An Amazing Birth Control
When you look at people groups that are hunters and gathers, mothers breastfeed and wear their babies until they are 5-6 years old.
In those family units you usually see one child under the age of three. And in their lifetime those women typically give birth to only four children.
Breastfeeding is an amazing birth control.
This is just not the case, of course, in most of the world today. The secret lies in breastfeeding for so long and not being separated from your baby, but how fascinating that this was the way it use to be.
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