A philosophy of infant feeding

A History of Infant Feeding

Infant Feeding Amongst Primitive Peoples Anthropological studies show that there is a remarkable tendency to obscure the natural method of infant feeding. This is more readily understandable when it is realized that contemporary primitive tribes are in fact highly civilized, though their form of civilization has evolved along different lines from our own. The known facts have been compiled by P...

A history of infant feeding.

The historical evolution of infant feeding includes wet nursing, the feeding bottle, and formula use. Before the invention of bottles and formula, wet nursing was the safest and most common alternative to the natural mother's breastmilk. Society's negative view of wet nursing, combined with improvements of the feeding bottle, the availability of animal's milk, and advances in formula developmen...

Social Contexts of Infant Feeding and Infant Feeding Decisions.

BACKGROUND Infant feeding takes place within a network of social relationships. However, the social context in which infant feeding advice is received remains underresearched. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the social contexts of infant feeding by examining individual and relationship characteristics of mothers and network members associated with advice to exclusively b...

Infant Feeding

This new volume on Infant Feeding is based on a course of lectures given to the students of Rush Medical College, and it is partly due to a demand on their part that the treatise is written. In its preparation the writer has endeavoured to bring our knowledge of the scientific processes that underlie infant feeding up to the present, and to apply these principles in such a way that they can be ...

Infant Feeding