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Posted By KLopez 11 months, 1 week ago in Family

A half-century ago, when Edwina Froehlich gave birth to the first of three sons at the age of 36, she was told that she was too old to breast-feed. She swept past that warning and nursed the boys into toddlerhood. When her children were still young, she and six friends (among them Betty Wagner Spandikow, who also died this year) decided to hold gatherings in their homes to answer other mothers’ questions about breast-feeding.

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