From Breast to Bottle: a History of Modern Infant Feeding

Overview

Journal Endeavour

Specialty Science

Date 2009 May 26

PMID 19464060

Citations 11

Authors

Linda Bryder

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Abstract

In the early twentieth century, mothers began to turn towards scientific infant-feeding formulae as an alternative to breastfeeding their babies. This is strange because the benefits of breastfeeding were widely recognised. The extraordinary rise of the formula feed therefore demands a special explanation, one that includes an appreciation of key changes in public health, the emergence of paediatrics as a profession, commercial interests and advances in the sciences of bacteriology and nutrition. All these factors conspired to propel the formula feed to the fore.

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