Many women struggle to breastfeed. Scientists are starting to ask why

Re:Many women struggle to breastfeed. Scientists are startin... by causi on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @03:32PM (#34810151)

Think about how many millions of years were spent evolving the human brain, human instincts, and human child to adult development process to maximize the survival of children and hence our species. Now think about how psychotic it is, in light of that, to make small children sleep in a separate room from their parents. No wonder they have night terrors.

Our society is utterly riddled with anti-natural facets like that which cause no end of problems.

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Re:Many women struggle to breastfeed. Scientists are startin... by sandermvanvliet on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @03:48PM (#34810352)

Having a baby around I can tell you that as far as human evolution goes it’s good we don’t have natural enemies because we’d all be eaten by now.

Baby is tired: I shall make lots of noise so the predators will go away… right.

Eaten I tell you!

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Re:Many women struggle to breastfeed. Scientists are startin... by EForEndeavour on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:27PM (#34810810)

I can only assume since we're all here that the survival benefits of incredibly loud infant cries outweigh(ed) the risk of attracting predators. I'm no biologist, but I can imagine how the fact that babies cry promotes formation of close-knit social groups to help defend against predators in numbers.

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Re:Many women struggle to breastfeed. Scientists are startin... by egman_ekki on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:19PM (#34810726)

Having a small kid also got me wondering how chimps cope with the same problems. I mean they’re 98% similar to us, so the babies must go through very similar stages…

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