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= November 2 =

What led to the increase in prevalence of breastfeeding?
According to this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_breastfeeding starting in the 1960s there was a resurgence in breastfeeding in United States and Canada.What caused the resurgence? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:569:7733:AD00:AD6F:C935:4788:3388 (talk) 07:54, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * This paper, which was the first result when I typed "cause of resurgence of breastfeeding" into google, as seen here looks to have a good start to you research, as it not only has a wealth of information on its own, itself links to dozens of other studies on the matter. -- Jayron 32 10:51, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The OPs cited article notes that "By the 1950s, the predominant attitude to breastfeeding was that it was something practiced by the uneducated and those of lower classes. The practice was considered old-fashioned and "a little disgusting" for those who could not afford Infant formula and discouraged by medical practitioners and media of the time. By the 1960s the touted suitability of infant formula as a substitute for human milk was being questioned, which lead later to warnings such as "lack of breastfeeding—and especially lack of exclusive breastfeeding during the first half-year of life—are important risk factors for infant and childhood morbidity and mortality" (WHO 2003) and "a formula-fed child living in unclean conditions is between 6 and 25 times more likely to die of diarrhea and four times more likely to die of pneumonia than a breastfed child." (UNICEF 2007). Blooteuth (talk) 14:20, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Benjamin Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care in 1946 was shown on I Love Lucy 1951-1957. Sleigh (talk) 10:07, 7 November 2017 (UTC)