--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > I posted stats on pregnancy/childbirth in > developing > > vs. industrialized countries last year; I'm afraid > > that I don't remember which thread... <snip> > > > > Developing nation women *do* have less breast > cancer, > > as the risk decreases with more pregnancies and > longer > > breastfeeding -- but I think I'd take the ability > to regulate my fertility, thanks. :P
Well, that wasn't very clear; I meant 'so that I didn't get pregnant at 14 and have 10+ children,' as complications increase in child pregnancies, and complications in adult women of non-developed countries have a poorer chance of being detected and corrected. > Longer breastfeeding is good. Good for the child, > anyway. Up to a point. > > I think that someone did a study of various primates > and determined that > based on a number of factors, the appropriate age of > weaning for humans is around 5 years old. <snip> Ouch! I think that teeth erupting would probably be my cutoff... ;) Semi-related, does anyone know offhand what happened in the case of the woman who was still nursing her 7 or 9 year-old (I forget which)? Debbi __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
