Old photos of women wet nurse breastfeeding

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The details of these laws in certain areas do not specify whether a mother needs to be covered up while breastfeeding in public, or to what degree, which is still a topic of debate. One woman was so tired of hearing all the shaming that she decided to set the record straight once and for all. Rene Johnson took to Facebook, where she outlined the place of public breastfeeding in American history in a now-viral post. Quoting an article published on Breastfeeding USA , Rene passed on some information to shut down those who say that breastfeeding without a cover while out in the open is a new thing. Our foremothers were expected to maintain a busy household, which included feeding the baby, and breastfeeding in the market or other public areas was not a cause for uproar.

In recent years new mothers have tried to de-stigmatise breastfeeding in public - even sharing photos of intimate moments nursing their babies online. And while breastfeeding selfies might still divide opinion, it turns out the yummy mummies of Instagram were far from the first to pose for this kind of picture. These photos taken in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries show new mothers proudly breastfeeding their children in front of the camera. It's thought that, as photography became more widely available, it sparked a fad for Victorian mothers using the new technology to pose for portraits while nursing their newborns.

Breastfeeding debates can leave families feeling embattled from both sides, but controversy over who should breastfeed and for how long and where shows no signs of letting up. For example, in July, news broke that the United States had fought a seemingly uncontroversial resolution in support of breastfeeding at the World Health Assembly earlier this spring. But, though such controversies can seem like a distinctly modern problem, breastfeeding has long been fraught. When historian Jacqueline H. I was a graduate student when I was pregnant.