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Communities of cross-feeders
A desire to help leads some women to “cross-feed” – breastfeed other parents’ babies for free. Alev Scott delves into the emotions behind this altruistic act.
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A freezer full of breastmilk
When new mum Alev Scott began pumping her milk between feeds, she soon found she was freezing more breastmilk than her baby would ever need. So Alev began to investigate ways to share her oversupply.
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The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
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The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
- Journals
Food for tot : newsletter of the History of Infant Feeding Association.
Date: 1988-- Books
A history of infant feeding ... / [Ian Goodson Wickes].
Wickes, Ian Goodson.Date: [1953]- Books
The artificial feeding of athreptic infants / W. McKim Marriott.
Marriott, Williams McKim, 1885-1936.Date: 1976- Books
Physiology and pathology of the digestion of fat in infancy : their application to infant-feeding / Fritz B. Talbot.
Talbot, Fritz B. (Fritz Bradley), 1878-1964.Date: 1976- Books
Results of three years experience with a new concept of baby feeding / Walter W. Sackett, Jr.
Sackett, Walter W.Date: 1976