Furthermore, the birth
spacing effects of breastfeeding, largely forgotten in our day and age, were well known in those times, and aristocratic families wanted to have many children, so that breastfeeding by the mother was definitely discouraged amongst the nobles.
Although with «cultural
breastfeeding» there may be no
effects on a mother's fertility whatsoever, when a mother and infant participate in the human biological norm or «ecological
breastfeeding,» women remain in lactational amenorrhea (absence
of periods due to unrestricted
breastfeeding and constant proximity) and babies are
spaced naturally.