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Are you still nursing?

Julia Martins might get the side-eye for breastfeeding a three-year-old in the UK but, as she explains, examples from history, as well as the cultural norms of Brazil, where she grew up, are firmly on the side of extended nursing.

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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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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.

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Confusion, guilt, and the battle to breastfeed

Most new mums are told that breast is best. But breastfeeding doesn’t always come as easily or naturally as you might imagine.

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  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: nurses attending to a baby in the maternity ward. Photograph, 1921.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • University College Hospital, London: the Maternity Hospital and Nurses' home, Huntley Street (subesequently the Rockefeller Building). Photo-lithograph, 1923, after C. A. Farey, 1922.
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