During my pregnancies I suffered from horrific heartburn, which is very common. I was told I couldn’t take Omeprazole, a widely available, cheap, hugely effective heartburn treatment, simply because not enough research had been done to confirm it didn’t affect the baby. The same is true of many basic painkillers after birth which ‘may’ be transferred into breast milk and have an adverse effect on the baby. So new mothers are left in pain because, of course, you don’t take any risks with a tiny newborn.  Yet as soon as a perverted man wants to stick his nipple into a newborn’s mouth researchers are straight on it and it’s declared totally fine.   Don’t ever tell me sexism is a thing of the past.