The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) is a global network of individuals
& organisations concerned with the protection, promotion & support of breastfeeding worldwide.
WABA action is based on the Innocenti Declaration, the Ten Links for Nurturing the Future and the
Global Strategy for Infant & Young Child Feeding. WABA is in consultative status with UNICEF & an NGO
in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).
  
We are 
mammals!
 
 
 
 
Spiny anteaters
Platypus
 

Hey, Mommy says that I breastfed a lot. that makes me a mammal, doesn't it? 
 

Sure does! But you were born of an egg?! 
 

EGG? Are you crazy?  I was born from my mommy's tummy! Are mammals born from eggs, that's funny? 
 

No, it was just a joke!  The majority of  mammals are born from the mother's womb.  But my teacher says that six of the 4,237 species of mammals lay eggs.  They are the platypus from Australia and five types of  Echnidas (Spiny Ant Eaters) from New Guinea. 
 

And how do they nurse?? 
 

When the eggs break and the babies are born, they drink their mother's milk that drips out of big skin pores. (They have no breasts).  And there is another kind of mammal that's really interesting: Marsupials. 
 

 

 
© Beatriz & Denise Arcoverde - 1999
 

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