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The Milk of Life

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Breast Feeding in the 18th Century

For centuries, dry feeding had been seen as a distant third choice for feeding babies. But with this new scientific formula, that started to change. Carlo tells us the british government made breast feeding a political priority. He says once water supplies and milk supplies were safe, that took a lot of the danger out of it.

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