by Kimberly Seals Allers From the publisher: Pediatricians say you should but it’s okay if you don’t. The hospital says, “Breast is best,” but sends you home with formula “just in […]
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Prehistoric Babies Drank Animal Milk From Bottles
Researchers from the UK report finding ruminant milk residue inside a type of ancient spouted clay bowl that sometimes featured animal feet and heads. The earliest examples of this kind […]
First attack against Nestle for discouraging breastfeeding
In what has been hailed as “the first salvo in the battle of the breast versus bottle,” pediatrician Cicely Williams in 1939 accused the Nestle company of murder by infant […]
When commercial baby food became popular in the United States
Cans of homogenized vegetables, fruits, and meats sold as baby food first became popular in the 1920s. The first to produce them on a large scale was a man named Harold […]
Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet
by Amy Bentley From the publisher: Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity—and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding […]