History of Breastfeeding
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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How Women Dealed With Maternity Leave
For many women breastfeeding was their job, you know, they were witnesses. But it's the changes that came with industrialization that really completely altered how we got to work and parent. You have to go to the factory. You can't bring your baby. What do you mean tweaking the other nipple? So I'm learning so much. No, just be playing with it. Baby's just fiddle. The hand will be in your mouth. They want to be entertained while they eat. That's so sweet. And like all the thousands of years ago that someone captured that in a little bronze, that little bit of human experience. Yes.
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