She thought the reason people got heartburn when pregnant was that babies just grew amongst your organs and could pull at them.
she wasn't completely wrong, cause of heartburn in pregnancy is disputed, generally speaking the heartburn in early pregnancy is most likely due to certain hormones increasing and a slowing down of digestive actions, but in later pregnancy this can be exacerbated by the baby's growth impacting on organ placement, the stomach moves significantly in pregnancy
Breast milk adapts to the needs of the baby, your aunt may have (either accidentally or deliberately) had a taste of the milk at different times on different days or whatever, noticed the different tastes and attributed that to the different breast she tasted from.
It's generally quite sweet but not always, changes to suit the babies needs at different times so eg tends to be less sweet at night and thicker and more "substantial"
@bluebluezoo and @GrandAltogether
I thought someone would come back with that! The lack of effective contraception (contrary to modern opinion there were some contraceptives back then albeit quite unreliable, eg rubber condoms have been around for quite some time) could well have been an issue but mainly as they were catholic and at that time anything but abstention at certain times would not have been considered acceptable.
The couple in question by all accounts loved each other very much, and the conversation she had with my gran on the eve of her wedding was very much of 'it might seem an odd thing to do but it's actually alright' but of course we can't know for certain this much later on, although this great gran was still alive until I was in my early teens so I knew her and she spoke very lovingly of her late husband.
@WendyMAD And others on the vegetarian thing there's been threads on here where posters are absolutely adamant that fish, chicken, meat stock etc are perfectly acceptable things to serve to a vegetarian
I became veggie for other reasons but by default discovered that red meat and red meat products (like stock) actually make me extremely ill. So if someone were to give me something with that type of ingredient I would be a very sick and very unhappy person.
@Butterer As a dx ocd sufferer that's appalling!
I'd be querying if they're ACTUALLY a dietician - which is a protected title by the way so if they don't have the qualifications they shouldn't be calling themselves that!