Maternity

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  10/11/2022
  

  Empathy in the Archive: Care and Disdain for Wet Nursing Mothers

  by Anna K. Danziger Halperin

  "Just like today, women’s decisions in the past about how to feed their babies were shaped by personal preference, to be sure, but the possibilities available are bounded by technological innovations, shifting medical advice, and social, cultural, and economic pressures and practices."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/19/2022
  

  What Parents Did Before Baby Formula

  by Carla Cevasco

  "The formula shortage is not a victory for breastfeeding. It is a calamity for families who, like families throughout history, just want to feed their children."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/18/2022
  

  Women Know You Can't Just Replace Formula with Breastfeeding

  by Laura Earls

  Breastfeeding advocacy is historically tied as much to a prescriptive and sentimental image of motherhood and maternal attachment as to concern for babies' health, and has long ignored physical and social obstacles to nursing.