I was born at 28 weeks in 1972, just after they’d banned the nasty drug that caused the missing limbs and just before abortion was made legal. They’d JUST installed a new neonatal unit in Newark New Jersey that was “top of the line” – and in an era where Breast Milk was frowned upon (because Nestle had everybody believing that Formula was Scientifically Superior – breast milk was at its lowest usage time then statistically, I got breast milk from a strange little program from some very smart Nurses that knew that breast milk was better for premies and likely all babies. I can tell stories yet here I am. I could’ve been aborted if it was legal and it would have been a reasonable choice; but I wasn’t and I’m glad to be here.

I was born at 28 weeks in 1972, just after they’d banned the nasty drug that caused the missing limbs and just before abortion was made legal.
They’d JUST installed a new neonatal unit in Newark New Jersey that was “top of the line” – and in an era where Breast Milk was frowned upon (because Nestle had everybody believing that Formula was Scientifically Superior – breast milk was at its lowest usage time then statistically, I got breast milk from a strange little program from some very smart Nurses that knew that breast milk was better for premies and likely all babies.
I can tell stories yet here I am.
I could’ve been aborted if it was legal and it would have been a reasonable choice; but I wasn’t and I’m glad to be here.
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I bring up breastfeeding vs formula because there’s a whole lot more than “baby better in womb” (not always – preterm babies are usually born preterm because there’s a incompatability of some kind between the mother and what’s growing inside and the body tries to eject the foreign matter)
Figure. US breastfeeding rates: 1965 through 1995.
Resurgence of Breastfeeding in US:
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