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Thank you Uncle Peter for these amazing photos above!
(Thank you Annie and Lee for this photo!)
All about nursing animals. . .
". . . Baby elephant nurses through her mouth while her trunk hugs mommy. . . Baby calf drinks delicious milk from her mommy. The more she drinks, the more mommy makes. . . "					WE LIKE TO NURSE Everyone who has a nursling (or knows one) MUST buy this amazing book! Beautifully illustrated, this gentle book reads like one long poem about nursing mamas and babes in the wild and at home. It is moving and wonderful with great graphic-style illustrations! You can order it from the Santa Fe Breastfeeding Task Force.
by Nan Richardson and Catherine Chermayeff		"For two years, the affectionate mother and child are inseparable, and a thumb-sized nipple under her flipper offers daily sustenance.
This book should really be called Wild Parenting--it gives description after description of all kinds of animals and how they raise their babies. But the cool thing is, these are descriptions with an agenda. More than just offering a reflection of our parenting in nature, this book teaches us that we can learn to parent from these animals. Take the elephants for example. "Elephants live in a female world, a matriarchy ruled by the oldest and toughest grande dame in each herd, all busy indulging the smallest among them." Or the title of the page on Australia's Tasmanian pademelon (a marsupial), "Milky Ways," and for whom, the authors tell us, "like other mammals, the breast's offer of nourishment, protection, and warmth is the core of the mother-infant bond." Giraffes: "Sisterhood exists in the animal world as well as in the bosom of the feminist movement; female giraffes with young to guard sensed that it was more economical to pool energies." And just one more--polar bears: "Ideal examples of the sacrifices of motherhood, polar bear females only mate every three years, and so each of their cubs is deeply precious." This is my kind of agenda!