By Indira Lopez Bassols

My breastfeeding journey started almost twelve years ago in Mexico, my home, and heart, country. Over the years with my three children, it has become an essential ingredient in my mothering.

Although the bottle-feeding infatuation has begun to take hold in parts of Latin America, breastfeeding is very much part of our culture, our roots and traditions.

My Mexican grandmother breastfed her eight children, and my mother breastfed her five children. In fact, every woman in my family, as far as I can recall, [Read more...]