The taste of the world

Breastmilk

Paleolithic Venus.

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By: Clémence Denavit Follow

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Breast milk is the newborn's first food.

The World Health Organization recalls that there is nothing better for the diet of the young man than breast milk, and recommends exclusive breastfeeding for at least the first 6 months of the child's life.

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Questions of means, of choice, of politics too, of culture, breastfeeding and mother's milk rarely leaves one indifferent.

This milk fascinates and fascinates, in the north as in the south.

It is also intimate and universal.

Here very invested, almost magical, there shared, obvious, our view of breast milk varies according to where we live, customs, religions, and traditions.

It is a link, between parents and their baby, between communities, between societies and on the eve of International Women's Day (March 8), we wanted to highlight it.

Maternity, Boulevard Port Royal, Paris.

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With

, director of the house of Solenn, in Paris.

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, 87 boulevard Port Royal, 75014 Paris.

Marie-Rose Moro.

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The testimony of Anne, mother of two little girls – Nina and June.

Married to a Cuban artist, she lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Anne with her daughters June and Nina on a train in Cuba.

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mother land

For further

- Lactariums and breast milk banks

→ Association of milk banks

- Breastfeeding – Dr Marie Thirion

→ Association of doulas of France

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Duerme, Duerme Negrito

, by Mercedes Sosa

Milk Fountain

, by Camille.

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