'The past offers us a grim warning: Without safe, nutritionally complete alternatives to breast milk, infants will die.' writes Carla Cevasco, a professor at Rutgers University. 'The formula shortage is not a victory for breastfeeding. (via The Atlantic)
. Though some nurses were available because their infant had already died, others nursed their enslavers’ or clients’ children at the expense of their own, many of whom starved.
As the American food supply industrialized in the late 19th century, a new crop of milk substitutes became available. Their advertisements promised plump, happy babies. Such products were essential for the increasing numbers of women working outside the home, whether in domestic service or in Gilded Age factories that offered no worker protections and certainly no lactation rooms .
Don’t Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesChicago public-health authorities estimated that bottle-fed babies were 15 times more likely to die than their breastfed counterparts. Close to 13 percent of all infants born in the United States died before their first birthday.
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