History of Breastfeeding
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
The Impossible Bind of Breastfeeding
In 1780, there were 21,000 babies registered births in Paris. Only a thousand of those were registered as being fed by their birth mother. So you've got about 20,000 babies potentially being sent out to wet nurses. This was like wet nursing on a kind of industrial scale. And again, you're stuck in an impossible bind as a mother. You're being told it's the best thing to do. But also the reality is that it's not always feasible or it makes more sense to do it a different way.
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