Column: What We Get Wrong About Life Before Modern Baby Formula

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English - May 19, 2022 12:21 - 4 minutes - 8.72 MB - ★★★★ - 63 ratings
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As families around the United States grapple with the infant formula shortage, some social media commentators have been asking: why don’t people just breastfeed? Isn’t that what everyone did before infant formula?

As a historian who studies the feeding of infants and children, I can tell you that breastfeeding has never been possible for everyone and people have always needed substitutes for breast milk.