So, the term «extended breastfeeding» assumes that the specific cultural and material conditions that middle - and upper - class contemporary Westerners experience — widespread misunderstanding and stigma
surrounding women's
breasts and children's biology; widespread availability of commercial formula; clean water to prepare it with; the time and space to wash, sterilize, and store bottles, and so forth — are «
normal,» while literally everything that has ever existed outside of this limited cultural experience and relatively short, unique period in time is somehow abnormal.
December 20, 2007 Genetic alterations in the benign - appearing stromal cells
surrounding breast cancers predict for nodal metastases The cells
surrounding breast cancers, called stroma, are benign appearing, «
normal» by all accounts.