Apparently Prissy from “Gone With the Wind” isn’t the only one who don’t know nothin’ about birthin’ babies. From the perspective of “The Business of Being Born,” an eye-opening look at maternity in America, the nation’s hospitals and insurance …

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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. - Thomas Szasz + Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. - Robert Byrne + Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. - Mark Twain + Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery + Testsatz 01 +

Breast-feeding is good for new mothers as well as for their babies. There are no bottles to sterilize and no formula to buy, measure and mix. It may be easier for a nursing mother to lose the pounds of pregnancy as well, since nursing uses up extra calories. Lactation also stimulates the uterus to contract back to its original size. More than two decades of research have established that breast milk is perfectly suited to nourish infants and protect them from illness. Breast-fed infants have lower rates of hospital admissions, ear infections, diarrhea, rashes, allergies, and other medical problems than bottle-fed babies.