Unlatched

<p>Since the rise of artificial formula we have turned a biological process into a never-ending controversy: A mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son on the cover of <em>Time</em> magazine sets off a firestorm. Facebook takes down photos of women nursing citing the content as offensive. The pope weighs in urging mothers to nurse their children in church or elsewhere without thinking twice.</p><p>So how did we get here? What are the consequences of surrendering eons of human evolution for a mode of feeding so alien? Growing up journalist Jennifer Grayson thought nothing of the fact that she was bottle-fed. But when she became a mother Grayson considered the impact of missing out on this profound connection. Her book is a worldwide search for answers about the first most fundamental experience of newborn life.</p><p>From biblical times to eighteenth-century France from modern-day Mongolia to inner-city Los Angeles--<em>Unlatched</em> uncovers astonishing cultural corporate political and technological factors at the heart of our contemporary breastfeeding disconnection.</p>