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The breastfeeding solution

There’s nothing inappropriate about feeding a child.

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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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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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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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  • Mother breastfeeding her baby
  • A sculpture of a mother breastfeeding her baby, advertising maternal breastfeeding in France. Process print, 194-.
  • A woman breastfeeding her baby: promoting breastfeeding in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A mother breastfeeding her child. Lithograph.
  • Three women at work breastfeeding their babies: breastfeeding for professional women in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Unicef, ca. 1995.
  • Three women at work breastfeeding their babies: breastfeeding for working women in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Unicef, ca. 1995.
  • Chinese painting of woman breastfeeding her child.
  • Africa: a woman breastfeeding two babies. Photograph, ca. 1940 (?).
  • A baby breastfeeding. Colour lithograph by Kenya Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Pero breastfeeding her father Cimon to assuage his hunger. Etching by Francesco Cozza.
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