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If you have a son, feed him at your breast until he is four. If you have a daughter, feed her at your breast for just a season, so that your blood will start again and you can try once more to bear a son.

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In context, having a son is extremely important. Nursing was believed to be a deterrent from childbearing, so if you had the son.... it was alright for a woman to miss her cycles. If she had a daughter, however, it was important to have a son, thus, she wouldn't want nursing to interfere with her ability to become pregnant again.

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