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A farmer?s wife breastfeeds her baby while two other women give water to a child from a pitcher. From The Five Senses Series by Fredrick Bloemaert, after Abraham Bloemaert, 1632-1670. CREDIT: F. Bloemaert/A. Bloemaert/N. Visscherimage/Rijks Museum/Public Domain

Women in a 19th-century Dutch farming village didn't breastfeed

13 April 2022

An analysis of bones from about 500 individuals who died between 1830 and 1867 in Middenbeemster suggests women in the dairy farming community did not breastfeed
An unscientific debate over breast milk is spilling into food banks

An unscientific debate over breast milk is spilling into food banks

27 January 2021

An overzealous push for breastfeeding is affecting availability of baby formula in food banks, worsening problems for the poorest people, writes Clare Wilson

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