[sportutegrl]

Over 500 years ago, what passed for scientists back then, used to call breast cancer the nuns disease, because only nuns got it. There is a definite link between breast cancer and not nursing children. Abortion comes into play because you can't nurse an aborted child.

[muir_redwoods]

"Over 500 years ago, what passed for scientists back then, used to call breast cancer the nuns disease, because only nuns got it. There is a definite link between breast cancer and not nursing children. Abortion comes into play because you can't nurse an aborted child."

Maybe and it's only anecdotal but my wife, who died last march from breast cancer, nursed all three of our daughters. She never had an abortion either, BTW

[TASMANIANRED]

It may not be the nursing as much as the hormone break that people have with repeated pregnancies.

With the menstrual cycle you have rising and falling estrogen/progesterone levels monthly.

With pregnancy early you have a rise in progesterone that helps sustain the pregnancy in the early months (morning sickness months) and then a fairly steady state hormone lvl until delivery. If you breast feed you may not have menstrual cycles for many months.

With 5 pregnancies you have 4.8 years without the monthly fluctuations in estrogen/progesterone lvls.