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History Tea Time

A History of Breastfeeding

History Tea Time

Lindsay Holiday

History

4.5566 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Throughout history, women have been feeding their babies from their bodies. Breastfeeding is portrait as the natural way. But since ancient times, women have been struggling to nurse, feeling societal pressures and shame to breast feed or to hand their infants to wet nurse or to bottle feed. And hearing a great many men’s opinions on what they should and shouldn’t do with their bodies. Let’s take a look at the complicated and fascinating history of breast feeding and infant feeding. Join me every Tuesday when I'm Spilling the Tea on History! Check out my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lindsayholiday Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091781568503 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historyteatimelindsayholiday/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@historyteatime Please consider supporting me at https://www.patreon.com/LindsayHoliday and help me make more fascinating episodes! Intro Music: Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell Music: Dream of the Ancestors by Asher Fulero #HistoryTeaTime #LindsayHoliday Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com if you would like to advertise on this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.3

Fees applied to delivery orders subject to availability.

0:45.0

Hello and welcome to history tea time.

0:49.2

I'm Lindsay Holiday and I'm spilling the tea on history.

0:59.0

A history of breastastfeeding and Babyfeeding.

1:07.0

Throughout history, women have been feeding their babies from their bodies. Breastfeeding is portrayed as blissful, natural, and easy. But ask almost any mother from ancient

1:14.8

Egypt, the Middle Ages, or today, and she'll tell you that is rarely the case. Since ancient

1:21.2

times, women have been struggling with when, how, and what to feed their babies, and feeling societal pressure and shame to breastfeed

1:31.3

or to hand their infants to a wet nurse or to bottle feed. All the while hearing a great many men's

1:39.3

opinions on what they should and shouldn't do with their bodies. Let's take a look at how women throughout

1:46.2

history and across cultures have fed their babies. Since the evolution of mammals 178 million

1:55.4

years ago, mothers have been feeding their baby's milk produced by their own bodies. Humans are the only

2:01.7

species to have evolved mammary glands which remain permanently enlarged, even when not lactating.

2:08.4

Theories as to why we evolved breasts include giving infants something to more easily grab onto,

2:15.0

or to act as fat reserves when food was scarce, like camel's

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