Nature's bounty

IN 1992, the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) launched the first World Breastfeeding Week. It has been 11 years since then, and the movement has gone from strength to strength. 

For once, in the context of breastfeeding, a fixation with breasts is a good thing. After all, breast milk offers a newborn infant myriad benefits, as Mother Nature intended. But the benefits are not just confined to infants. Others benefit too.