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A bit academic, but fascinating,
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This review is from: SOCIAL HISTORY OF WET NURSING IN AMERICA: FROM BREAST TO BOTTLE (WOMEN & HEALTH C&S PERSPECTIVE) (Paperback)
Formula had a predecessor: the wet nurse. Golden tracks her down during the 18th and 19th centuries in America, and documents in some detail how wet nursing was supplanted by formula and why. This is a great source of information for those who wonder about the early history of formula, and also for those who wonder why we don't have more human milk banks. Golden describes the forces pushing the ages of partial and full weaning down through the nineteenth century in all classes.
It's fascinating to hear how a lot of breastfeeding myths we think come from other parts of the world were alive and well in our own country as long as breastfeeding was alive and well. And at least in some contexts, they weren't myths at all. Breastfeeding women in the nineteenth century, particularly wet nurses who were tandem nursing, needed much better nutrition than the other servants, for example. The ideas and information in this book deserve a larger audience. |
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SOCIAL HISTORY OF WET NURSING IN AMERICA: FROM BREAST TO BOTTLE (WOMEN & HEALTH C&S PERSPECTIVE) by Janet Lynne Golden (Paperback - January 25, 2001)
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